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...traditional response is, of course, that a criminal shouldn't go free just because the constable blundered. But Dershowitz's ancedotal style of argument weakens that argument's gut appeal. He tells of successfully defending Sheldon Siegel, a boyhood acquaintance who had been indirectly linked to a Jewish Defense League bombing in New York. Dershowitz acknowledges Siegel's complicity. But, observes, the government tricked Siegel into confessing. It destroyed tapes crucial to Siegel's case and reneged on its promise of legal immunity. As a result, attorney Dershowitz fought to exclude any evidence that had resulted from Siegel's coerced...
What environments shaped Mumford? As he tells it, a procession of boyhood New York apartments so dark and cluttered, in the late Victorian style, that he acquired an early appreciation of the austere forms of 20th century architecture. With affectionate detail he recalls his maverick mother, a shabby-genteel domestic in the house of a New York lawyer, who met the man's nephew and bore young Lewis out of wedlock. The boy's German grandfather, a retired headwaiter at Delmonico's, became the dominant figure of Mumford's early years, taking him on long walks...
...gives no thought to such things. "They memorialize folks up there at Muirfield," he said before leaving Hot Springs, Va., his boyhood home. (Since his boyhood is not over, he still lives there.) "But you have to be retired or dead to be memorialized. Since it doesn't look like I'm going to do either one, they decided to throw me a birthday party instead." So a 70-year-old athlete was competing last week at the highest level of his sport...
...tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under the bed or in the closet. Also Dragnet on TV. Also a crack in the bedroom wall-I thought ghosts might come from it." For Spielberg, film making has been a profitable form of psychotherapy: those boyhood fears form the spine of the Poltergeist plot...
...comes Hally (Lonny Price), the teen-age son of the owners of the tearoom. He is instantly at ease, having spent more warm and happy hours since boyhood with the servants than with his parents. Sam and Hally teasingly argue about whether dancing is an art or merely entertainment. Hally scoffs that the dancers fumble around and bump into one another. No, says Sam, seraphically. "It is like being in a dream about a world without collisions...and it's beautiful because that's what we want life to be like...