Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese setting of the proceedings is convincing and interesting in and of itself, but it's soon apparent that this story boils down to the same standards of courtroom action that American audiences have come to know and love. There is a slightly cantankerous yet, in her own way, endearing judge. There are rampant objections and questions of protocol. There is a question of missing evidence which the defense claims is crucial. There is witty repartee and cunning logic. There is independent investigation along lines the prosecution hopes the defense doesn't pursue, which very nearly gets the defense...
...panel on Oct. 10, partly to protest and partly out of a real sense of curiosity--who were these people hoping to "cure" us? I had been told that all the tickets for the event had sold out on the first day, so I arrived 45 minutes early. The courtroom was completely empty save for two pleasant-looking men in suits. We chatted for a moment and I learned that they were Peter LaBarbera, the publisher of an anti-gay journal, and Bob Knight of the Family Research Council, one of the nation's largest religious right organizations. My heart...
About 100 people filled a courtroom at Harvard Law School recently, as Michael D. Johnston, a "former homosexual" who has AIDS, described how he had "walked away" from the gay lifestyle...
Groundlings takes the form of a courtroom drama, in which Christian Roulleau '01--a member of the audience--is forced to stand trial for the murders in Hamlet. The play begins as Judge Titorelli (Max-Joseph Montel '01) takes the stand, while on stage behind him a troupe of actors pantomime Shakespeare's bloody plot. In search of a guilty party, the menacing Bailiff (Young Lee '99) whisks Roulleau out of his seat among the audience and into the witness stand. Prosecuting Counselor Clamence (Claire Farley '01) accuses him of complicity in the actors' murders: by doing nothing to prevent...
...Meanwhile, it seems Albert has another victim on his hands. Outside the courtroom, surprise witness (and peeved chew-toy) Patricia Masten said, "Personally, I'm very upset that he's not doing any jail time...