Word: experts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conversation. Gene Hackman turns in a masterful portrayal of a plodding, quiet and eerily and suspicious bugging expert who is hired by he's not sure who to spy on a couple that might be the victims (or the perpretrators) of who knows what hideous crime of romantic vengence. This Francis Ford Coppolla movie--one for which he had trouble finding funding or distributors--works hauntingly on at least three levels. Metaphorically, it serves to highlight the pathologically paranoid mood of the last years of the Nixon administration and the Watergate cover-up. Intellectually, it goes deeper than this; Hackman...
...remove the bug. These legally questionable acts evoked memories of Nixon-era plumbers and led many Germans to wonder whether the Verfassungsschutz, which is roughly equivalent to the FBI, was functioning in a high-handed style reminiscent of the Hitler era. Der Spiegel's disclosure that an expert picklock from Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's federal intelligence service had helped in the break-in enhanced the impression of a "Watergate am Rhine...
Life in a globe is not always a ball. Domes have had a bad reputation for leaking, though manufacturers claim that this should be no problem if the home is finished by an expert roofer. They are apt to be noisy, since they usually have few of the interior partitions that muffle sound in a traditional structure. Fitting rectangular furniture into a round house also poses problems; many dome dwellers build in tubs, beds and cabinets shaped to fit the walls...
When New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller asked Jones in 1970 to serve on the Public Service Commission because he was a well-known expert on antitrust and regulatory law, Jones agreed but only on condition that he could continue teaching at Columbia. But even while teaching, he also enrolled himself as a student in statistical techniques. Says he: "Mathematics is going to be an increasingly important part of legal development, and I do not wish to become obsolete." There is little danger of that, for Jones applies the same tactic to his teaching. Says he: "The largest part of teaching...
...been criticized by stuffier colleagues as "too commercial," but the zesty expert on criminal law accepts that tag as a compliment. For Kamisar, who once longed to be a sportswriter, "the lawyer is the great translator" who should strive to make legal principles clear to the general public. Kamisar has churned out many articles for magazines and newspapers, sometimes working through the night when he is pursuing a good idea. He is a witty performer in the classroom, cajoling, infuriating, charming his students-all the while, he says, "trying to develop a certain kind of mind, a legal mind, that...