Word: duked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play depicts the turbulent and short-lived regency over the Duchy of Vienna. The Duke, poland assumes the disguise of mendicant friar to get a perspective on his city. As his deputy during his chooses Angelo on the basis of his reputation for unwavering morality. As expected, the upright Angelo upsets licentious Viennese by sentencing the randy Claudio to death for fornication. When his prim novitiate sister, Isabella, comes to sue for her brother's life. Angelo finds himself consumed by the very lust he condemns, and demands sexual favors for Claudio's release. Shakespeare constructs a detailed examination...
...years earlier, his elder brother, Geoffrey Wolff, had published his own memoir, The Duke of Deception, a remarkable account of life with their father Arthur Wolff, a loving, brilliant rogue who was a lifelong bankrupt, scamster and confidence man. "A bad man and a good father," Geoffrey wrote after he floated free of the wreckage his father had created. Tobias recalls that he admired Geoffrey's book but that some of the characterizations seemed jarringly out of key. Then his own book came out. It told of their mother's cross-country flight with him, leaving Geoffrey behind with Arthur...
Beyond damned lies and memory, however, there is Hollywood. Each brother sold his memoir to Warner Bros., and by coincidence, the same screenwriter, Robert Getchell, did both scripts. The Duke of Deception is still being sniffed by stars (Richard Gere is mentioned), but This Boy's Life hits the multiplexes this week. Geoffrey is silent about the film, but Tobias answers his phone cheerfully enough...
Against defense witness Sergeant Charles Duke, who asserts that the beating was within department guidelines and that there were no "head shots," the first prosecution answered with a career desk officer. This time Duke was rebutted by witnesses with street wisdom: the police academy's trainer in the use of force, Sergeant Mark Conta, and a California Highway Patrol member who saw King beaten, Melanie Singer. Conta said, "We never teach to break bones. I see excessive force here. The picture I see is that of a beaten man who is not combative or aggressive." He faulted each defendant: Koon...
Harvard was fresh off its first victory of the season. After hard fought losses to Duke and Hofstra, the Crimson had finally won one on Saturday...