Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon also declared in his statement that he would immediately suspend any member of the Executive Branch of Government who is indicted, and would fire anyone who is convicted. Any action short of that, of course, would be outrageous. He said that no past or present member of his Administration should be granted any immunity from prosecution. That, too, was no great concession, and could even be regarded as protective of high officials. Immunity is a device normally used by courts only to help convict important figures in a crime by getting minor participants to turn state's evidence...
...Convict Jarvis Chuff, a brainy, pacific and proletarian train robber, finds himself mysteriously sprung from the nick. His benefactors turn out to be a wealthy singer turned princess by marriage, a Church of England vicar, an ancient British major with a limp and a svelte, pneumatic upper-class bird named Philomela. Chuff (homonym for Chough, the acquisitive European jackdaw) is given the angelic name of Gabriel and soon put to work with Philomela (namesake of the poor lady who had her tongue cut out and was turned into a nightingale). Clad in dark cat suits, they pull off various nocturnal...
...Vice President decried what he termed irresponsible reporting of the Watergate affair by the news media. He said that the publication of "hearsay" has served to damage the reputations of those unjustly accused and to weaken the government's ability to prosecute and convict the guilty...
...structural familiarity spreads itself into the story. Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont), thoroughly resistable convict, is the subject of a sociology thesis on "Criminal Women." Camille has nothing going for her at all -- ingnorant, vulgar, even hook-nosed--and yet Stanislas (Andre Dussollier) chooses her as subject over, we are told, an axe murderer and a homicidal Pole, for no discernable reason. No matter. From the outset, her insidious charm is clear. And that's half the story -- her complete captivation of Stanislas, the dryest of men, competent and professional but obviously ill-at-ease, even rapped, when placed...
Pascal Calabrese, the former Mrs. Leonhard's new husband, was paroled soon after his testimony helped convict five Mafiosi, including a reputed underboss who got 20 years. A "contract" was reportedly out on Calabrese and his family, but the informer went directly from prison to a new residence and identity, complete with faked supporting credentials that a grateful Government had provided for him, his new wife and the three Leonhard children. That was fine for them, but "what about me?" Leonhard asks...