Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weak case or not, McLeod's assistant, Virgis Ashworth, handled-the prosecution vigorously and intelligently enough to give the defendants some bad moments. His best witnesses were two other white Yankee ministers who were beaten along with Reeb after the trio left a Negro cafe. Both the Rev. Clark Olsen and the Rev. Orloff Miller identified one of the accused, Elmer L. Cook, 42, as among their assailants. "There is no question in my mind," Olsen persisted under tough cross-examination by Defense Attorney Joe T. Pilcher Jr., "that Mr. Cook is the one who attacked...
...after detail about this rather effeminate man. We watch him carefully transfer five cigarettes from a near-empty to a near-full pack; we see him count the seconds at a street crossing before the light changes; we observe how carefully he unfolds his newspaper when seated at a cafe. Truffaut has always relied on acting to power his films, but never has he created such intensely cinematic acting, relying on touches far too fine to be visible on the stage...
...closing shots, when Franca shoots Pierre in a cafe, Truffaut has the spectators almost comically rise en masse to disrupt your sympathies once again. The director of The Soft Skin will not permit you your comfortable catharsis. Rather you must leave the theatre with the deepest feeling of hollowness which is far more painful and--I believe--honest...
Around the courthouse and on the sidewalk in front of the cafe stood a small crowd of whites, watching indifferently. Six state patrolmen slouched with folded arms. The Negro police chief was nowhere in sight...
...went into the cafe to buy cold sodas. The troopers were already there, sipping cokes...