Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three years, Yale Law Professor Steven Duke has been working to correct what he calls "one of the most inexcusable, grotesque perversions of justice in the history of the federal criminal process." Without any compensation, Duke has devoted as many as 80 hours a week trying to reverse the narcotics conviction of a Connecticut hairdresser named James Miller. In 1964 Attorney General Robert Kennedy called Miller one of the main figures in the nation's largest narcotics smuggling ring, but Duke is convinced that Miller was the victim of a grievous error on the part of the Government...
After his conviction, Miller sought the services of Duke, who quickly became persuaded that his client was a victim of mistaken identity. For one thing, Duke claimed to have a bugged conversation in which another man, Mario Natalizio, had admitted that he was Caron's Connecticut contact. He eventually talked Natalizio into a confession. But Natalizio later repudiated the document, and Duke lost both the appeal and numerous motions for a new trial...
...sixteen-year history of the famous Newport Festival that a rock group will be the closing act. In August, Sly and the Family Stone will showcase at the Woodstock. Music Festival in Woodstock, New York. Among the other festivals on their summer agenda is a starring appearance at the Duke Ellington tribute at Hampden-Sydney College, in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia...
...author, and his director, Mr. Christopher Hart, whose static stagings managed to convince me that the Ex could be made to look even more cramped and confining than it actually is. Some of their actors do some notable work. André Bishop is genuinely and broadly amusing as the Duke of York, while Robert Edgar almost manager to suggest substantial complexity in the role of Charles II. He manages a nice twist on the King's foppish manner, turning it on for public scenes and off in more private moments. As Monmouth himself, Timothy Clark works hard and reads intelligently...
...ready to fall in love, doors begin to close "with the sound of a kiss on a bare shoulder," and the air turns sultry. This environmental adaptability is all very well in the first half of the book, when Colin's main preoccupations are his love for Chloe, for Duke Ellington's music, and for the gastronomical delights concocted by his cook. But when Chloe falls fatally ill the atmosphere of light and luxury changes. As he runs to her bedside his world literally constricts and darkens...