Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story, briefly, tells of David Poole, an ambitious county prosecutor (played by Jack Lemmon), who is able to forget that he is witness to a suicide in order to convict an innocent suspect and become a Hero. Albert Dekker as the sheriff eggs him on toward his hollow stand for Right and Justice, and James Donald as the deputy prosecutor warns him of the power the accused's family wields, which just set him more firmly in his course. But only a Negro secretary, Elizabeth Falk (portrayed by Ellen Holly) knows his secret...
Cars driving along the new expressway that knifes into the city from the north were stoned and shot at. White taxi driv ers venturing into the Negro section were burned by potash. Fire bombs were tossed. A Negro ex-convict named Charlie Davis led a shooting raid on a white filling station, got shot in the head himself and was killed when his car crashed into a utility pole. Negro gangs gave up fighting among themselves, banded together against the common enemy and roamed the streets looking for trouble. In a single day 50 people were injured...
Folk singers come in at least four varieties: the genuine articles, such as Louisiana Convict Pete Williams; the "city-billies," who pick up their materials at second hand but try to retain the original flavor; the "art singers," who transform the materials in carefully stylized arrangements, and the frankly commercial groups, which fit folk lyrics into a pop format. Among folk music's currently popular or promising names...
...strong character, Lewis Eliot, the upper-echelon bureaucrat and first-person narrator who either dominates or "I" witnesses most of the Snow novels. What Eliot gradually collects is not so much the evidence to clear Howard as the ambiguous human motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, occasionally selfless-that convict all would-be judges...
...Balcony. To French ex-Convict Jean Genet the world is a brothel, and his play-more interesting for its conception and staging than for the playwright's wild language-is set in a bawdyhouse where customers are dressed as bishops, judges and generals to salve their egos...