Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There he remained for 13 years (except for a few hours in 1961 when he escaped). Last April, Matteawan doctors decided that he was now capable of standing trial. He was sent to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital where other psychiatrists agreed. The only hitch was that in the years...
Not everyone whose conviction is thrown out by the Supreme Court has such good fortune. Three years ago, the Supreme Court found that Brooklyn Murderer Nathan Jackson was entitled to consideration of his claim of having been drugged when he confessed. But at a subsequent hearing, Jackson's confession...
Ironically, the film's most stirring moments are not its overheated love scenes but the brief encounters between Burton and Guinness. In one, Guinness, a short day's journey from death, recounts his wasted life of lies in a graveyard retreat. Priestlike, Burton answers the tortured confession with...
Nat Turner's story is told in the first person, and some readers will feel that it is told almost too well; at times the narrator's lyrical style suggests Styron more than Turner. Most of the time, though, the author's impersonation rings true enough. Nat...
Straight away, Jim started off with a confession. "I don't have any musical background other than listening to records. I first started singing when the Doors started. Before that I was just a listener."