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Marrero admitted hitting McDuffie, but contended that he had done so only because the black man grabbed for the policeman's gun. Defense Attorney Edward Carhart told the jury that the attack on McDuffie was like a "barroom brawl," but he argued that it was impossible to determine who had delivered the fatal blow. He also stressed inconsistencies in the testimony of the state's police witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Happened to Duff? | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...friends. Next I watched one of the thugs grab D by the collar and threaten to beat him up. At that point a Black Harvard student (E) came to D's aid and tried to usher the thug out of Tommy's. Push came to shove and a genuine brawl broke out. E was aided by an Adams House tutor and an employee of Tommy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attack | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

...version of cap and bells. In performance, both bands leap about in transports of benign dementia. The highlight of a Madness show is a ska version of Swan Lake that features a couple of roadies conking their noggins together like a couple of billy goats in a brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Ska Above, the Beat Below | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...rest of the cast fares less well, unable to break free of Sellars's spell, like automatons in a technocracy. Grace Shohet is properly bitchy as Goneril and Anne Clarke makes a vapidly cruel Regan but they remain one-dimensional. James Bundy plays Kent with remarkable sincerity but his brawl with Oswald (a surprisingly meaty role in the hands of David Prum) sinks to absurdity. Mathew Horsman and Judah Mandlebaum labor with Albany and Cornwall and Max Cantor skates onstage intermittently as the court's errand...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...there seems to be a physical gag in every shot - it has little of the director's usual narrative drive. The movie's story does not so much move forward as gradually selfdestruct. At times 1941 drags to a com- plete and stultifying halt: a lengthy dancehall brawl, conceived along the lines of a massive Laurel and Hardy pie fight, somehow comes out both mirthless and meanspirited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Bursting in Air | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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