Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood could not have cast a more suitable director. Serious and sensitive, with a trial lawyer's appetite for the telling detail, Pakula had brought two "unfilmable" books, All the President's Men and Sophie's Choice, to life onscreen. For his new challenge, he and production designer George Jenkins scouted courthouses around the country. They finally chose Detroit for exterior shots, Newark for some early court scenes and, for the climactic trial, an elaborate set modeled on a Cleveland building and meticulously reproduced at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens...
...heart of Presumed Innocent is a murder trial, its intricate arabesques portrayed in breathtaking detail, in which the defendant is almost -- almost -- certainly not the guilty party. The Burden of Proof offers a hero, Alejandro ("Sandy") Stern, the brilliant attorney who defended the accused narrator of Presumed Innocent, who must reconcile his responsibilities to his profession with those to his family. As the novel makes clear, Sandy cannot do both...
...support of 15% of the population. After Carpentras, Interior Minister Pierre Joxe called Le Pen a racist and a provocateur. The National Front leader has aimed his invective mainly at North Africans. But he has also made outrageous remarks about Jews, calling the Nazi gas chambers "a point of detail" in history and making a pun involving the word crematory on a Jewish minister's name...
Seth Morgan began writing this first novel during a prison term for armed robbery. The cuff marks show, and not just in detail that seems accurate. The novel is funny and fast moving, but its air stinks slightly of decay. As it should. A couple of Nelson Algren's low-life adventures come to mind, such as A Walk on the Wild Side and The Man with the Golden Arm. Algren was a better writer and a more lyrical artist, but Morgan is better acquainted with dead souls...
...aliens can afford to travel in style. INS agents recently discovered contracts that detail the terms of involuntary servitude involving poor Chinese aliens in New York City. In Mexico aliens who try to cross the border on foot are often robbed, sometimes by policemen who then turn them in, for payoffs of $30 to $40 per head, to smuggling organizations that take the aliens into the U.S. For this reason, many aliens arriving in Los Angeles from Mexico no longer carry cash. Instead, they are held hostage until smuggling fees are paid by relatives. The smugglers typically cram...