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...libretto by Playwright-Film Maker Richard Foreman bristled with the same anarchic spirit. Against a background of film strips and flashing lights, it unfolded a plotless jumble of scenes that might have resulted from a collaboration by Brecht, Beckett and Buster Keaton. "Nobody looks at me," sang one character in a typically enigmatic line, "therefore I retrace my steps." In another episode, a scruffy charwoman incongruously trilled out an aria while brandishing a three-foot wooden spoon at the other characters...
...building owner complained that the moving man had come nowhere near justifying his claim. Superior Court Judge Reuben Lurie agreed, and he upheld a motion asking for a directed verdict in favor of the defendant. Under Massachusetts law, there was only one formality left. The clerk intoned: "Mr. Foreman and members of the jury, hearken to your verdict. The jury finds for the defendant by order of the court. So say you, Mr. Foreman? So say you all, members of the jury?" To everyone's astonishment, Juror Claude Solana said...
...Foreman: Forgotten Man of Management by Thomas H. Patten...
...officials commented sadly that it would take some time to reach the ten bodies in the farthest section. The families of the trapped miners had wandered back to their homes at Hominy Falls (pop. 400) and neighboring hamlets, and began to make less frequent trips to the site. Sobbed Foreman Frank Davis, one of those rescued: "No chance, no chance." Still, it is a mining tradition to keep working until bodies are recovered, so pumping operations continued round the clock as boreholes were drilled 250 feet down to the shaft...
...NEWS SPECIAL: THE TRIAL LAWYER (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Four of America's most successful attorneys for the defense-. Lee Bailey, Edward Bennett Williams, Melvin Belli and Percy Foreman-discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the trial-by-jury system...