Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disputed bombing raids of the Cambodian mainland. At home and abroad, some political experts thought that the show of force, which had many of the gung-ho elements of a John Wayne movie, was excessive. The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun asked, "Why did [the U.S.] have to use a cannon to shoot a chicken...
...more interesting to me than the battle of Borodino. The miracle of cinematography is the reconstruction (or, if you will, the construction) of human life. Film magnifies human "fleas" to superhuman proportions, and a tremor of the lips or the eye's loving glance is more powerful than a cannon shot...
Despite the play's conceptual flaws, it is both extremely entertaining and moving. The actors are all fine (especially James Cannon as Brad, who is excellent), and the dialogue is natural and moves at a fast clip. Peter Jones, directing his own play, keeps the scenes tight and imaginative. What's more, there's the most terrifying bar brawl I've ever seen on a stage, which should be seen before somebody falls off the platform and breaks...
Although her chambers at one time were done in shocking pink, Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Noel Cannon often chose language that was decidedly blue. She once inquired in the vernacular whether guards conducting a search had looked up the rectum of a lawyer whom she had just jailed for contempt. On another occasion off the bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical...
...increasing propensity to jail and dismiss defense attorneys for minor or nonexistent infractions led finally to an effort to spike Cannon. Last week a California judicial commission formally asked the state supreme court to remove the Stanford Law School graduate for willful misconduct and actions "prejudicial to the administration of justice." Judge Cannon was forthwith suspended pending the court's decision. She has yet to shoot back with her reaction-at least in public...