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...appeals court's 121-page opinion found that on more than 150 occasions Judge Hoffman had made comments before the jury implying that the defense counsel was "inept, bumptious or untrustworthy, or that his case lacked merit." Cumulatively, these "gratuitous" remarks "must have telegraphed to the jury the judge's contempt for the defense." One example cited was Judge Hoffman's snide comment when Defense Attorney William Kunstler objected that he did not understand a particular ruling: "You will have to see a lawyer, Mr. Kunstler, if you don't understand...
...Bumptious Phase. His colleagues at some of the regional theaters are not entirely pleased with his notion and fear his imperialist instincts. "I think Joe is in a very bumptious phase," responds Zelda Fichandler, producing director of the Arena Stage in Washington. "He just wants to spread that which he creates around. He wants to cover more of God's green earth, and he needs green money to do it." She tartly adds: "It is only lately that he is in the new play department. He has done European things at the Public Theater...
...refined "the Mansholt Plan" to phase out Europe's tiny farms and replace them with larger, more efficient units; a modified version of his proposal was passed the day after he took over as president. Within the staid EEC bureaucracy, he also developed a well-founded reputation for bumptious indiscretion. As a zealous supranationalist who advocated closer European union, he fought a number of ideological battles with France's Gaullist representatives in the early '60s. For years it had been assumed that the hostility of the French had cost Mansholt whatever chances he had of becoming president...
Initially, Mahalia had trouble getting her music accepted in larger, middle-class black churches because of its bumptious echoes of a life most of the parishioners preferred to forget. But as recordings widened her fame, the church doors opened. So, after World War II, did the ears and minds of a steadily increasing number of whites, who bought her records and listened to her weekly radio show. Thus she helped to prime the mass public for later gospel and soul singers...
...screenplays; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Though he turned out such top movie dramas as The Life of Emile Zola (for which he won a 1937 Oscar), Elizabeth and Essex and A Bell for Adano, Raine was probably best known as the creator of Tugboat Annie, the bumptious, bighearted heroine of 75 Saturday Evening Post stories and the 1933 Hollywood film in which Marie Dressier portrayed Annie and Wallace Beery played Terry, her soused spouse...