Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that matter, imagine how to prosecutors must feel. Their legal careers will probably be crippled by a failure to convict a man whose smoking gun was repeatedly displayed on all three networks and on the front page of every newspaper in the country. America must again seem out of control, its priorities skewed way out proportion. How else would 12 men and women get the idea they were dispensing "justice" by treating America's latest villian with kid gloves...
That is why she needs a governess. As it develops, Miss Madrigal is an ex-convict, but she is an owl of wisdom. No one fully glimpses her past until a warmer-than-drawing-room-temperature confrontation in Act III with the judge (I.M. Hobson) who convicted her. Miss Madrigal, it develops, tended a garden during her 15-year sentence for murder. Under her wise ministrations the lime-based waste patch of the play's title also promises to flourish, along with the love-parched inhabitants of the manor house...
...deception went undetected until last May, when a team of accountants discovered a discrepancy in the department's records. An inquiry was launched that eventually developed into a full-scale investigation. As attention began to focus on Luisi, she hired Criminal Lawyer Ivan Fisher, whose clients have included Convict-Author Jack Henry Abbott...
Some congressional critics are more than satisfied by the State Department report. Says Congressman Jim Leach, Republican from Iowa: "The previous statements on the subject were sufficient to indict but not to convict. On the basis of the new report, I think any jury would convict...
...troubled period for movies, when attendance is slipping and not even the presence of Burt Reynolds or Clint Eastwood can guarantee box office gold, Richard Pryor is the one actor whose name spells HIT. Stir Crazy, the comedy in which he co-starred with Gene Wilder as a bumbling convict, was the No. 3 moneymaking movie of 1981 and, except for National Lampoon 's Animal House, the most successful comedy in industry history. Pryor's other 1981 film, the sugar-and-spice Bustin' Loose, was also a moneymaker, establishing him as the only star to have...