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...most important factor in shaping the conduct and tone of a trial remains the guidance of the judge. But judges are worried that an incautious intervention from the bench might provide a basis for appeal. The result, says Gloria Allred, an activist Los Angeles attorney, is that "judges, who want to allow the defense as much of a chance as possible, sometimes err on the side of the defendant by allowing the victim to be vigorously cross-examined." When they do, the only palliative seems to be public protest. The storm over Hanson's treatment last week...
...play focuses on two groups in a segregated waiting area of Savannah's train depot. On one bench sit The Marshalls, a stiff and respectable Black family--Mother (Erika Dilday), Father (Mark Awobuluyi) and teenage daughter Bridget (Elizabeth Wint). Two lower-class "white boys," Jackie Saunders (Steve Barr) and Benny Jones (Scott Chavez), eye them from across the bare stage, whispering and wondering "what it's like to live like them...
From their "For Non-Blacks" bench, the two white figures ogle after Bridget, whom they call an "African princess." With their spirited readings of such lines as "Oooohwhee!!" and "I hears you," Barr and Chavez consistently overact, and their larger-than-life gestures and exaggerated Southern accents make them offensive caricatures...
...game been closer or the opponent more dangerous--the University of Massachusetts, for instance, or (God forbid) Dartmouth--the official rulings might have provoked heated protests from the Crimson bench and from the players who scored the goals...
...both Char Joslin and Leelee Groome--the bearers of the contraband weapons--merely shrugged when their goals were disallowed, went back to the bench to get legal sticks with regulation-size pouches, and took the field again. The game of terrorizing the Terriers continued, and finished with Harvard...