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...have played the voice of God in the 1966 movie The Bible, but Director John Huston, 77, cannot move mountains. So last month Huston moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the shadow of Popocatepetl, site of his new epic, Under the Volcano. The film, which stars Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews, takes place during a single day in 1938, mostly inside the head of its drunken protagonist. "The consul is the most complicated character I've ever had in a film," says Huston. "He's like a Churchill gone bad, a great man with a flaw." Bisset...
Radcliffe's answer to Sudduth is outgoing varsity crew coach Carie Graves, who last week, rowing in a foursome for the Boston Rowing Club, triumphed in the National Amateur Rowing Championships in Indianapolis. In the same regarts an undergraduate, Mary Ellen Finney, combined with a partner to take top honors in the Lightweight Pair Class...
Paul "Red" Casey fought back from a first period knockdown to take a split decision over Bob Finney in the round of 16 action of the New England Golden Gloves Tournament yesterday in Lowell, Mass...
...your article on prison life, you mention the 1978 Supreme Court decision Hutto vs. Finney, 'involving sickeningly bad conditions in Arkansas." In that case the Arkansas system was the first to be declared unconstitutional. This past August the U.S. district court, citing "important and significant achievement," ended the 13-year litigation over the conditions in the Arkansas department of correction...
...years, a conservative Supreme Court affirmed, and then cautiously circumscribed, the range of prison conditions deemed unconstitutional, and the discretion of lower federal judges to order remedies. In its 1976 decision in the Texas case Estelle vs. Gamble, and even more powerfully two years later in Hutto vs. Finney, a case involving sickeningly bad conditions in Arkansas, the Supreme Court effectively reversed the two-century policy of keeping prisons virtually immune from judicial intervention. In last year's Rhodes vs. Chapman, however, the Justices substantially narrowed the circumstances under which a court may order prison improvements...