Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charges, including four for attempted murder. Defense Attorney Barry Slotnick insisted, however, that Goetz "was the real victim in this case." Slotnick announced that he planned to defend his client by "prosecuting" the four "vicious predators" who surrounded Goetz on the subway car. Despite an admonition from Judge Stephen Crane, Slotnick referred to Goetz's victims as "drug addicts" and attempted to bring up their criminal records. (Two of the four are in jail on other charges, one for the rape of an adolescent girl, and a third is completing drug rehabilitation. The fourth shooting victim, Darrell Cabey, was left...
...Friday, state Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane, the trial judge, refused a defense request to dismiss or at least delay the trial. Goetz's lawyers charged that the prosecution illegally withheld information favorable to the defense from the grand jury that indicted...
Huston has always enjoyed literary subjects. He has tackled Stephen Crane's & The Red Badge of Courage (1951), Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1956) and Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (1964). But Joyce offers a special challenge. Lights, camera, no action. "The movie doesn't have a single automobile chase," notes the director dryly. "No gun duels. The biggest piece of action is trying to pass the port." On a snowy Dublin evening during the Christmas season, Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attend his maiden aunts' annual dinner dance. He is a smug, possessive "stout tallish young...
...most respected areas of scholarshipis being the one who gets the most information tothe people," Crane says...
...spokesman for the agency giving the moneysays that the money is the second stage of acontract which will result in a test disc at theend of a year. Crane said he expectsmass-production of the disc in three years, whichwould require more grant money