Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time before the cameras. Reportedly bankrolled by her great and good friend, Maritime Moneybags Aristotle Onassis, Maria is planning to make a film version of one of her most successful operatic roles, Cherubini's Medea. Setting: Milan's La Scala, not far from the courtroom where Maria's estranged husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, avowedly plans to enliven an upcoming legal separation trial with an angry aria on La Callas' "wanton search of happiness that she should realize she will never regain...
Into the deep, expectant silence of the courtroom. Eichmann could have dropped a single grace note of compassion. Eichmann declined the opportunity. No, it was not pity, he shrugged; it was just a matter of bureaucratic efficiency...
...special contour chair in a Manhattan courtroom, balding, black-browed Dr. Robert A. Soblen, 60, gasped and covered his face last week as a federal jury-after little more than one hour of deliberation-found him guilty of wartime espionage for the Soviet Union (TIME, June 30). Convicted largely on the testimony of his brother, confessed Red Spy Jack Soble, 58, Psychiatrist Soblen faces a possible death sentence...
Long-term Recall. The polysyllables of David Susskind, for example, pooled on the courtroom floor, spread to the walls and up to the ceiling, and held the committee spielbound for 210 minutes. In one triple metaphor, he summarized television drama as "celluloid sausage coming down the pike by the ream." Without referring to his own indifferent and unoriginal shows, Susskind estimated that TV as a whole had become "90% travesty, a gigantic comic strip, a huge ho-hum. I tremble for TV as a professional practitioner-as a father-as a citizen...
Witnessed in the average, seedy courtroom, the law seldom appears in the vestments of majesty, and the justice it dispenses often descends with a harshness very unlike Portia's rain from heaven. But for Author Sybille (A Legacy) Bedford, courtrooms hold living drama. Two years ago, in The Trial of Doctor Adams (TIME, March 16, 1959), she showed a spectacular talent for lending suspense and excitement to a criminal trial by heightening, not distorting, the events through unsparing observation. Since then she has prowled courts in Britain and all over Europe, observing, with her keen novelist...