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...film's documentary-style depiction of the prison's multiracial social strata and daily routine is fascinating, but it is Short Eyes' title character who gives the film its thrust. "Short Eyes" is prison slang for child molester, the one kind of felon all the others deplore, and when Prisoner Clark Davis (Bruce Davison) arrives at the Tombs, the moral and emotional tensions of the cell block are brought into powerful relief. Like Eugene O'Neill's Iceman, Davis is a crackerjack theatrical device; thanks to Davison's finely shaded performance, he is also...
Cauthen drove Walls home as promised, firmly convinced that the tellers had been mistaken. A short time later, however, a convicted felon also in the lineup told the FBI that he had overheard Brantley and Walls whispering about the robbery. Additional evidence was marshaled, and both Walls and Brantley were put on trial. The jury could not agree about Brantley's guilt, and the Government dropped the charges, but Walls was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison...
Regan has identified Irving Richards, a convicted felon and the private investigator hired by Harvard, as one of his assailants...
...would be stretching a point to say that the Yankees yet have much class. Their convicted-felon owner, George Steinbrenner, told Yankee broadcaster Frank Messer that he wanted Lee suspended from baseball for telling a New Jersey paper that he was looking forward to returning to action and "drilling" Nettles and Mickey Rivers, the two members of the Yankees who almost ended the Space Cowboy's career--a natural feeling on Lee's part, it seems...
Whether Pavlovich will come out in the black "after a cost-benefit study of his life," as one student put it, remains to be seen. Many students at Harvard refuse to view Pavlovich as a common felon. One friends says he feels Spiro proved dramatically that "it was unnecessary to go the prep school, Ivy route in order to succeed at Harvard." Meanwhile, a few business students sport "Free Monica Cabot" T-shirts and have written a case study on her. Up at the Law School, the inevitable Spiro jokes are incorporated in the school's annual show...