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While Cooper handles the day-to-day presentation of Sirhan's defense, Russell E. Parsons will be preparing witnesses and planning appeals, which are his specialty. His most famous was in the 1955 case of People v. Cahan, which involved a bookmaker whose Hollywood apartment was bugged by police. Parsons claimed that law-enforcement agencies had thus electronically crossed Cahan's threshold. His argument successfully established the California law that evidence illegally obtained is inadmissible in a criminal case...
Powell achieved notoriety last April, when he declared in a now famous speech that immigrants have made Britons "feel like strangers in their own country" and spoke of a vision of Britain "foaming with much blood." It was the first time that Powell-or any other politician in recent British history-had made such a major issue of the delicate question of race. The results horrified moderates. Rank-and-file workingmen, normally Labor Party stalwarts, downed tools to demonstrate their support for Tory Powell. Nearly 100,000 letters poured into his office, the vast majority in hearty agreement with...
...brush with death and fled, only to meet it in his flight. Throughout the film, Godard leaves a trail of authors' names: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Faulkner, Jack London, Raymond Chandler. One name he fails to drop is that of the man who made the legend famous by basing a whole novel on it. He is John O'Hara, and his book was Appointment in Samarra...
Perhaps the most famous blind student in the world is Harold E. Krents, Harvard graduate and second-year Harvard Law student. Hal won international reknown when he was classified 1-A by Local Draft Board 10 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. last spring. Hal said he would be glad to serve his country in any way possible, but hoped he'd be able to request the post of bombardier. His "Open Letter to General Hershey," to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey" was printed in Esquire this fall. Legally blind since birth, Hal had limited vision until...
...first time around (audiences tend to dwell on peripheral ambiguities), the structural integrity becomes increasingly clear on repeated viewings (well worthwhile) and ends up simpler than many of Bunuel's other films; Bunuel's insight and humanity far transcends the realm of social allegory for which he is duly famous (Viridiana, Exterminating Angel). But this simplicity is sensed rather than understood, and Severine's final fantasy (romantic rather than masochistic) is a wholly satisfying resolution without lending itself to easy interpretation. Belle de Jour may ultimately say all things to all men, but it surely is a masterpiece of personal...