Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cruel excuse "They had it coming, they had it coming." Roxie fears all is lost until she is taken under the wing of the ward matron Mama, who for a small fee, is pleased to point her in the direction of a cunning and flashy lawyer named Billy Flynn...
...entrance a grand spectacular of longlegged women dancing about him with fluttering pink plummage, Flynn virtually has the stage to himself whenever he speaks or touches his cigarette holder to his million-dollar mouth. Cocky and always in control, he boasts that "If Jesus Christ had been in Chicago and had had 5000 bucks, things would have turned out a lot different...
Roxie tricks her husband into providing the lawyer's fee--cash in advance--and Billy shows her how to make herself into a local Patty Hearst. The front page boys hang on every word as the dramatic Flynn moves Roxie like a puppet. He dramatizes the plight of the poor, innocent girl victimized by cruel men, and thrown pregnant into damp country slammer; of course she shot in self-defense as the man threatened to strangle her for refusing to cheat on her beloved husband...
Having stolen all the media's attention away from Velma who also used Flynn's tactics, Roxie marches brazenly to court, assured that her celebrity status will not only insure acquittal, but that she will be able to plaster her own name across the country in big, bright neon vaudeville marquee in New York...
Most of them are still being taught in separate classrooms. In Boston, though, Charlie Flynn and Mary O'Brien, special education consultants, have put 20 seriously handicapped students from kindergarten through third grade into regular city classrooms-at no substantial increase in expense, they argue, over that of educating normal children. All but a few attend the handsome William M. Trotter School in Roxbury, a school with a large staff that is even equipped with an elevator to transport children in wheelchairs...