Word: bench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Court officials almost doubled the number of judges at work and lengthened the bench shifts. But paper work and the difficulty of getting arresting officers to court-many were off duty or back on patrol-slowed arraignments before some judges to as few as two an hour. The delays may jeopardize some cases: the law requires that suspects be arraigned within "a reasonable time...
...amazing thing about the picture is that it works at all, since it is composed, for the most part, of painfully familiar material. At the climax, the hero actually comes off the bench and wins the Big Game. Yes, this is a sports film, the subject being big-time college basketball. Yes, it demonstrates once again that amidst all the pious talk about amateur ideals, colleges pay off their stars under the table and exploit them just dreadfully. With that much of the banal plot laid out, it perhaps hardly needs to be added that the hero (Robby Benson...
Only a few months ago, Yarbrough had ample reason to exult. The little-known Houston attorney had defeated a respected San Antonio appellate judge for the Democratic nomination to the state's highest civil bench. Outraged bar leaders attributed the upset to voters, confusing Yarbrough with Donald H. Yarborough, a three-time gubernatorial candidate (TIME, Aug. 30, 1976). After the primary, Yarbrough, a born-again Christian and former counsel to Campus Crusade for Christ, announced that God had instructed him to run for public office and would assist him in judicial decisionmaking. Only then was it revealed that some...
...Manhattan resembles a modern free-form museum or college library. Inside, the light, airy waiting area could be mistaken for an airport lounge. There are no juries or casual spectators at the confidential proceedings, so the small courtrooms look like corporate conference chambers. Only the black robe and elevated bench maintain tradition...
...John Brown University; to a seedy ballpark in Pittsfield, Mass., where a minor league team plays to empty stands; to a sun-hammered field in Puerto Rico where children try to emulate the feats of the late Roberto Clemente; to Cincinnati, where a country boy named Johnny Bench has parlayed his skills as a catcher into a million dollars worth of endorsements and franchise arrangements. The resulting collection of interviews and observations is an affectionate, and at times painfully accurate evocation of the game-and its recent erosions...