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These are familiar techniques of dramatic persuasion. Less excusable are the many instances where the movie slants the evidence to bolster its parable of Southern injustice. During Williams' trial, minor points made by the defense are highlighted, while prosecution witnesses (including the fiber experts whose testimony linked Williams to several of the bodies) are regularly shot down by crafty cross-examination. Damaging pieces of evidence (like the bloodstains found in Williams' car) are omitted, as are the many contradictions in Williams' testimony. Indeed, Williams' only mistake at the trial appears to be losing his temper on the second...
...Producer Mann, who researched the movie by talking to most of the principals, insists that his version is fair and accurate. "I bent over backward to be objective," he says. "This goes beyond whether Wayne Williams is guilty or innocent. The case raises tremendous issues: about the use of fiber evidence, about the use of pattern (the admission of evidence from other $ killings besides the two for which Williams was charged), about the closing of the cases so quickly after the conviction." Some in Atlanta agree that the movie will, at the very least, renew calls to reopen the cases...
Binder further blasted the state's use of fiber evidence linking Williams to his victims. He also criticized the court's allowance of "pattern" evidence, in which Williams was linked to the deaths of 10 children even though he was only charged with the murder of two adults...
This is a fetching idea and one that applies to America's most public poet. Approaching his autumnal years, the man once feared as a weevil in the nation's moral fiber is in a disarming state of equilibrium. Cultural norms have adjusted in Ginsberg's favor since 1956, when he disturbed the peace with Howl. It was a poetic tantrum thrown at the Eisenhower years, at an academic system that rejected his rude unconventionality, at an encompassing conspiracy he imagined had driven his mother and his soul mates crazy. "Moloch! Moloch!" he cried. "Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries...
...flaccid. "Optimism does not mean that we should not be cognizant of the real problems that we face," says Orthodox Rabbi Stanley Wagner, president of the Rocky Mountain Rabbinical Council. "The cheerful mood can easily be converted into hedonism, which in turn can trigger a destruction of the moral fiber of American life." The conversion of the burgeoning self-esteem into a new selfishness may already have begun. Among students of the preppie Landon School in Bethesda, Md., the mood is all about money. Says Headmaster Malcolm Coates: "I'd like to see a little more curiosity and discontent...