Word: belli
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Will the real Melvin Belli please stand...
...Belli, "the King of Torts," counselor to Errol Flynn, Martha Mitchell, and the Rolling Stones and as colorful as all of them, the Muhammed Ali of the bar--a superstar of the courtroom-as-theater, with credits that include Star Trek and Gimme Shelter...
...Belli, the maker of new law, a Darrow of civil law who creatively brought demonstrative evidence to torts, who introduced the concepts of warranty and the adequate award and made ambulance chasing socially acceptable...
...Belli the lawyer with an instinctive allegiance to the underdog, whose sense of justice and compassion led him to "torts"? literally, "wrongs,"--that had to be righted, to individuals who had to be helped against insurance companies and pharmaceutical conglomerates...
Unamusing Neurotics. The marital combatants are Mario Thomas and Charles Grodin, and the casus belli is their upward social mobility. He has become the headmaster of a fashionable Manhattan private school; she is still teaching in a public school in a slum. He is very pleased with their new high-rise apartment; she is so displeased that she has sent their antique furniture to their first apartment on the Lower East Side, in the neighborhood where they grew up. He is glumly preoccupied with getting and spending, she with gaminish stratagems designed to break through his fagade of indifference. None...