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...Corporation. A woman dressed in black slacks and wearing a felt hat walks her dog on a residential street. She watches as a burly man in a light T-shirt walks slowly on the other side of the street and enters a liquor store. She shakes her head with contempt and pulls her dog by the leash. "Come now, Pearl, we must move on," she says in a high voice...
...Refusal to produce legally subpoenaed evidence creates an assumption that the withheld material is damaging to the withholder's case. In a sense, such an act forfeits the law's normal presumption of innocence until proved guilty. Rodino does not intend, however, to seek any immediate contempt of Congress citation against the President if he fails to honor the subpoena. That possibility would be held in reserve until the committee determined whether it already had evidence warranting impeachment charges...
Cullinan got to Vesco through mutual acquaintances among Costa Rican politicians. The result was a series of conversations in Vesco's opulent retreat outside the capital, San Jose. Throughout one talk, a small handgun rested on a table near the casually dressed Vesco. During another, Vesco unburdened his contempt for American democracy ("goddam mob rule") and sympathy for Nixon's fallen men ("Take John Mitchell, that poor s.o.b., or Agnew ... These people cannot afford to pay what I'm paying in legal fees-well over $1 million a year...
...ample company among the recorders under police attack. High on the list is George W. Crockett Jr., 64, a black attorney who once served four months for contempt following a Smith Act trial in which he defended eleven accused Communists. Elected to the bench in 1966, he set up court in police headquarters following a 1969 shootout at a black church and immediately began releasing prisoners who were being held without counsel. Now presiding judge for a term of one year, Crockett is still tough on the cops, but has come to appear conservative by comparison with newer, still more...
...Waterston makes a gentle, intelligent Nick, but the role is largely passive. The movie's sharpest characterization is Bruce Bern's Tom Buchanan, a figure of imperiousness, steeped in contempt that comes from too much ease, too much money. When he and Gatsby confront Daisy in a hotel room one afternoon, the film catches the intensity that Fitzgerald conveyed in the sculpted contours of his prose...