Word: cuneo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amid the rich detail, Gabler at times poetically captures the desperate hunger that fueled Winchell. There is a telling scene of the columnist wading in the surf at Miami Beach in the late 1940s with his lawyer Ernest Cuneo. "Well, King Canute," asks Cuneo, "what more do you really want?" With tremendous vehemence, Winchell replies, "I want all the news in the world." Then the world's most powerful columnist adds, "And all its money too." With these values Winchell would truly be at home in the 1990s...
...prisoner's legal appeals were being quickly exhausted. Court after court had turned him down, and his first "serious" execution warrant was issued for May 1, 1990. In an effort to save Shaw, Donald Wolff, a prominent St. Louis attorney assigned to the case, brought in Illinois psychologist Daniel Cuneo, a political conservative usually extremely demanding on fitness matters, to determine whether Bobby was "competent" to be executed. Competency demands that a man understand why he was sentenced to die and what will happen when he is executed. Cuneo asked Shaw if he expected to be alive a week after...