Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last June, debt-ridden Vincenzo Marino, 32, a baker's assistant, sealed a deal with his friend Antonio Raffa, a courtroom attendant who greatly admired his wife Francesca. After some haggling, Marino agreed to let Francesca, 29, and two of their three children move in with Raffa for a consideration of $1,600. Although he already had a wife in Sicily, Raffa seemed glad to pay the charges-in easy installments. Since Raffa, 30, was better off financially than her husband, Francesca had no objections to the transaction. The trio agreed to remain good friends, and Marino was permitted...
...months ago, "The beast is in chains," there has been no doubt over the verdict in the case of Adolf Eichmann. Last week, as a chill rain fell on the deserted streets outside Jerusalem's Beit Haam (House of the People), the three Israeli judges returned to the courtroom in which, for four months, they heard 1,350,000 words of testimony. The crowd expected to hear first a detailed, legalistic defense of Israel's right to try Eichmann. Instead, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau (like his two colleagues a refugee from Nazi Germany) ordered Eichmann to attention...
...straighten up or sit down. According to a United Nations survey, 80,000 of Albania's 1,700,000 citizens were thrown into concentration camps between 1945 and 1956, and 16,000 died there. Last spring, a dozen Albanian army and navy officers were tried, in an improvised courtroom in Tirana's Partisan Cinema, as pro-Soviet conspirators. Found guilty, they were marched right off to an adjacent vacant lot and executed by a firing squad...
...until too late. And he has shrewdly timed the release of his movie to coincide with the reading of the judgment in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. But despite a singularly adroit performance by Maximilian Schell (Maria's younger brother), Judgment is on the whole just one more courtroom meller and an awful long (3 hr. 20 min.) meller at that...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'Idiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste...