Word: goetz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the controversy surrounding the Porto trial hinged upon whether sexual asphyxia would have been part of a teenage girl's erotic habits. Porto Attorney Barry Slotnick, who defended Subway Gunman Bernhard Goetz, put an expert on the stand who testified that the practice was far more common than people realize, though deaths occur mostly among males engaged in solitary...
...TRIAL OF BERNHARD GOETZ (PBS, May 11, 9 p.m. EDT on most stations). New York City's subway vigilante at the bar of justice again, in a drama based on trial transcripts...
...Among the new shows coming next fall are Group One Medical, in which real patients and doctors will discuss medical problems in front of an eavesdropping camera, and On Trial, featuring excerpts from actual court proceedings. TV docudramas are exhibiting more fidelity to the facts. The Trial of Bernhard Goetz, airing this week on PBS's American Playhouse series, dramatizes the trial of New York City's subway gunman, with all the dialogue taken directly from court transcripts. But the literal approach is oddly unsettling; without any artistic leeway, the actors (including Peter Crombie as Goetz) seem merely pale imitations...
EVERYONE knows that racial intolerance has been building during the Reagan years. We can all feel it--and we can point to Forsyth Country, to Bernard Goetz, and to Howard Beach as evidence. But where are the causes of this creeping racism? Who or what is to blame for derailing the consistent progress this country made towards greater civil rights in the last 30 years...
...There is a Center for Teaching and Learning which helps graduate students with their teaching responsibilities, but no university-wide organization or union to handle their complaints. It is more likely that any student concerns would be submitted to their individual departments," Goetz says...