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...City's John Gotti can testify. But when lawyers in the mid-'80s realized how broadly written it was, it mutated wildly. Prosecutors turned it on white-collar criminals like junk- bond-king Michael Milken. Plaintiffs in normal civil suits (a famous one involved litigious rabbis) used it to extract lucrative awards or far better settlements. It was invoked in sexual harassment suits...
...hours later, the L.A. city fire department can finally save someone. Firemen extract maintenance worker Salvador Pena from a street sweeper he was operating in the now collapsed garage of the Northridge mall, not far from the Meadows. Some slabs of concrete are airlifted off him; others are pushed away with a huge inflatable bladder. The process takes about four hours; then he is free. His legs are crushed, but he will survive. Says a fireman: "It feels so good...
...Father. Daniel Day Lewis stars as Gerry Conlon, the Belfast man who, while on a London spree in 1975, was unjustly arrested, convicted and jailed as an I.R.A. terrorist. The British police in charge of the case were no Miss Marples; they tortured the four major suspects to extract bogus confessions. In director Jim Sheridan's tense retelling of this shameful chapter in British jurisimprudence, the lads are smacked, threatened and humiliated. And Gerry's saintly father (Pete Postlethwaite), jailed with him, is allowed to die slowly, with little medical attention. By the end of the movie, whether...
...downside is that her singing voice, while warm and true, does not extract nearly as much angst or musicality as LuPone does from the anthems With One Look and New Ways to Dream. Lloyd Webber's music, as usual, has the lush extravagance and candy-box prettiness of Puccini, with themes repeated often enough to ensure their hummability. Though no single number has the pop allure of Memory or The Music of the Night, the score is probably his most coherent and effective...
...after she began hypnotherapy sessions. Now, she recalls how one spring night in 1989 she awoke in a stupor to see a strange craft outside her window. She was taken into the vehicle and examined by a team of strange beings. A silver tube was inserted into her to extract an ovum. She breaks down as she describes the abduction. "People say 'How do you know?' You don't know. You're never sure what happened...