Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the trial, which has been closed except for two brief public sessions, the defendants have been confined in a large steel-barred cage. One defendant, who is still suffering from wounds incurred in the attack on Sadat, lies on a stretcher on the floor. When not in the courtroom, the defendants are kept in solitary confinement. Their attorneys charged at the opening of the trial that they had been beaten and tortured. Last week, however, they seemed in good spirits, clasped copies of the Koran and called out to relatives in the courtroom...
...Danforth, condemning to death by hanging all those who do not confess they are guilty of witchcraft--flesh out each role to the fullest. The small room echoes, and candlesticks shake as Mattlin, in a phenomenal portrayal of conscientiousness and religious fervor turned fanatical, forces everyone in the courtroom to bend to his will by pure dominance of personality...
More than 500 people packed the newly remodeled Ames Courtroom last night to hear the final arguments of two teams of third-year law students in the annual Ames Moot Court Competition...
When testimony gets under way in the heavily guarded courtroom in Fort Collins, a central question will be whether Libya's World Revolutionary Committee was telling the truth when it initially claimed to have ordered the murder of Faisal Zagallai. If it did, it probably acted through Wilson. This possibility has spurred the Justice Department, CIA and FBI to pursue more aggressively their investigation of the former operative's empire. An interagency task force has been set up to coordinate the case, and the House Intelligence Committee will begin public hearings by the end of the year...
Cain's main technical difficulty seems to be a tendency, after inventing an effective device, to continue using it until it has beaten the audience insensible. In the first courtroom scene, Polonius, at a signal from the King, begins to thump his stick on the floor. At each impact the courtiers clap in unison; gradually, the chamberlain accelerates his pounding till the room rings with hearty applause. All well and good; but, having established the procedures. Cain has Polonius repeat the gesture six of seven times before the scene closes, and at least four more times...