Word: coding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILD BUNCH is Director Sam Peckinpah's way of telling the truth while preserving the legend of the West. His bandits, led by William Holden, are drawn by their own peculiar code of honor into a bloody finish that surpasses Bonnie and Clyde for violence...
...drafted by an eleven-man panel headed by Robert A. Ainsworth Jr. of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the new code provides only one narrow loophole. Because several judges protested that the ban on nonjudicial activities was too sweeping, an exception was made for services in the public interest, such as teaching at law schools-provided that approval is obtained from the appropriate judicial council, that the services do not interfere with judicial duties, and that the pay is publicly announced...
Otherwise, the code decrees: "A judge in regular active service shall not accept compensation of any kind, whether in the form of loans, gifts, gratuities, honoraria or otherwise, for services to be performed by him except that provided by law for the performance of his judicial duties." Beginning next year, each judge must also file with the conference an annual statement of investments, other assets, income and liabilities. By September, Judge Ainsworth's panel will draft legislation to "ensure the conference being able to enforce the motions we have passed...
That point is the subject of intense debate. If a binding code of any kind is to be imposed on the nation's highest court, it will probably have to be en forced by other judges. But then, who is to judge the judges of the judges...
...take the required rifles from a U.S. Army supply train. In 1913, this sort of activity is already anachronistic and doomed to failure. Trying to fulfill the terms of the contract, the bunch get doublecrossed. At the same time, they are caught in the vise of their own simplistic code of honor ("When you side with a man, you stay with him," Bishop says). Mapache betrays them from one side while the bounty hunters attack from another, and they are all finally wiped out in the bloodiest battle ever put on film...