Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to say that we are showing this to the jurors not for the truth of the matters said in this movie, but so they will understand and be able to properly evaluate the testimony of the doctor and the basis upon which he eventually came to a rather brief diagnosis: that at the time of the unfortunate incident, the defendant had a state of mind not com patible with murder...
...inherently a far-out composer, Kraft, 44, obviously is not afraid to be bold theatrically. The huge rear screen, on which the films were projected, was not the only innovation. At the end of the first movement, Kraft provided a brief interlude of jazz in which a solo violinist and snare drummer were picked out by spotlights in the darkened hall. Then at the end, he bid the audience a cheerful adieu with the rippling tinkle of an offstage jazz quartet...
Judge Samuel T.Tisdale decided at the end of yesterday's brief session to postpone the rest of the Common-wealth's factual presentation untill after the experts' testimony...
...starts with the Arab policeman to whom we ask directions in the border town of Kalkilya. He helps us on our way in fluent Hebrew. Later I find out that Arab policemen have had brief but tough coursse in Hebrew...
...syndrome of identity crisis and symbolic suicide encountered only too frequently in contemporary fiction. Mirrors and prisms are novelists' standard metaphors, and Durrell has always used them well. He does so again in this devilishly clever metaphysical mystery tale. But new times demand new metaphors; except for that brief, noisy episode in the ballroom, Tune is governed by a quavering image of the computer as truth giver. The hero, too, is brought up to date. The Alexandria Quartet was in large part about an artist's struggle for freedom within his culture; Tune, which in Latin means next...