Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...named James Napoli, wheels his gaunt, empty-eyed brother into court, kisses him on the forehead, then takes a seat and hugs or kisses family members. There is almost as much kissing as there are nicknames. But once, when there was no seat, Father Louis stormed out of the courtroom and reamed a niece: "Where am I supposed to sit? This is a dumb family...
...Each time, however, she would shoot back a cold glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to mitigate her mission: to convict McVeigh and get him sentenced to death. Last week, after his defense had presented parental pleas for mercy, Wilkinson's words thundered through the courtroom, demanding the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "All of us can feel compassion for his parents, but they do not know the Timothy McVeigh who murdered innocent men, women and children. Timothy McVeigh is no longer the sweet kid they want to remember... While Timothy McVeigh...
Elmer ("Geronimo") Pratt's release from prison evoked memories of the Black Panther Party, which the once militant Seale helped create in 1966. In 1969 Seale's courtroom histrionics as one of the Chicago Eight (they were tried for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention) caused the judge to order him shackled to a chair and gagged. In 1973 Seale tried working within the system, running unsuccessfully for mayor of Oakland, Calif. He has since published a memoir and a cookbook, Barbeque'n with Bobby. These days his political focus is on "civil-human rights." He is a volunteer...
That was about all she could manage. Treanor dissolved, her body racked by sobs, and almost everyone in the courtroom dissolved with her. Jurors wept openly, survivors wailed, reporters groped for hankies and sodden bits of tissue. Through it all sat McVeigh, cold and silent as stone. At that moment in that room, it seemed inconceivable that the jury could do anything but sentence him to death--and that anything but simple vengeance would be the reason why. When the day's testimony was over, even Matsch looked shaken. "You're human, and I'm human too," he told...
...heart of the play is the sparring between Wilde (Michael Emerson) and his courtroom antagonists. The flip, willfully perverse Wildean wit suffered the rude shock of having to defend itself under pitiless legal questioning. Asked if something he has written is true, Wilde replies, "I rarely think anything I write is true." He was a victim, of course, of Victorian prudery but also of the perennial clash between the aesthetic and the moral, the realm of art and the realm of life. Wilde realizes too late that it's an unfair fight. "One says things flippantly," he apologizes wanly...