Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young intellectuals accused of anti-Soviet agitation. In a show of defiance not seen for years in the Soviet Union, members of the country's educated elite challenged the government's case. Several petitions circulated, demanding "a full public airing" at the trial. Crowds gathered outside the courtroom, yelling, shoving and needling security guards. But Soviet justice pays scant heed to public opinion. After a five-day closed trial, the judge sentenced the three men and a woman to labor camps for terms ranging from one to seven years...
...Kremlin carefully chose the occupants of the 200 or so seats in the Moscow city courtroom. It excluded everyone but half a dozen relatives of the defendants and twelve or more Soviet journalists, whose reports never appeared in Pravda or Izvestia. Outside the courthouse, in temperatures that reached 50 below zero, protesters crowded against police barricades and dashed from door to door through the swirling snow, only to be turned away because they lacked official passes. Police pushed back a thin, weather-beaten man several times until someone yelled: "What kind of disgraceful situation is this? The father of Galanskov...
Last week, with a New Jersey courtroom for a stage, Jones demonstrated that he had lost none of his talent for theatrical invective. "You are not a righteous judge!" the defendant bellowed at Essex County Judge Leon Kapp, who sentenced him to a near maximum 2½-to-3-year prison term and a fine of $1,000 for illegally possessing the guns. "You represent a crumbling structure of society!" yelled Jones, who had earlier earned a 30-day contempt sentence for his outbursts in court...
...began swinging toward Moscow, Matos sounded the alarm. "The Communists are in the driver's seat," he warned, "trying to steal the revolution." When Castro refused to kick the Communists out of his inner circle, Matos resigned. The next day, Castro had him arrested. After a seven-hour courtroom harangue by Castro, he was convicted...
Every frame is dominated by the dizzying North African heat; with blinding sunlight and sweat-drenched bodies, Visconti comes close to prostrating his audience as he builds Meursault's unexpected, meaningless murder of an Arab on the beach. It is stifling, too, in the courtroom where Meursault is condemned, as much for his disengagement from society's proprieties and his refusal to pretend pieties he does not feel as for the crime itself...