Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grave Errors. Police had originally been led to Corona when receipts made out to him were found in one grave. Then they found blood on some of Corona's possessions. But the case against him soon proved to be less than ironclad. The prosecution admitted that some bodies had been improperly labeled, and no one could tell which had been found where. Blood samples taken from knives belonging to Corona were too fragmentary to be connected with the victims. Tire tracks at one gravesite were said by police to have come from one of Corona's trucks, until...
...cost of several thousand dollars, the state built a 7-ft. by 10-ft. map of the area, complete with blinking lights marking each gravesite, only to have police witnesses give varying locations for five graves. Another witness could not say when he had seen Corona near a grave, though he had earlier given police an exact date. (Corona himself said he was sick in bed when some of the murders were committed.) As the contradictions piled up, Judge Richard Patton repeatedly summoned the lawyers into his chambers to thrash out problems. Patton has done most of the thrashing, citing...
...kind of presence and subtle authority that can animate a characterization, not dominate it. Millar makes good use of him, especially in a devastating last scene when Tom returns as a man to the reservation school. "I've learned the new ways," he says, eyes full of grave irony suggesting scars without self-pity. The rodeo champion now wants only to tend the reservation horses, an ambition that suggests both a new awareness and a capitulation, a final defeat. ∎Jay Cocks
...cannot serve one's parents beyond the grave," shots her youngest son at her funeral. This is her final gift to her children, rather than a reproof. Like Ozu, she realizes that, in modern Japan, they have neither the time no the means to serve their parents, their ancestors, their family traditions. Her quiet death creates little stir, and is over so quickly that the inconvenience to her family is minimal. Left alone in the end, her husband is still surrounded by the rich web of time Ozu has managed to weave by his story. The family never speaks...
...Hoffa was sent to the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in 1967 on a jury tampering charge. Early this winter, after serving nearly five years of his sentence, he obtained his parole in a political deal with the Nixon Administration. When he emerged from prison. Robert Kennedy turned over in his grave the Democrats cried foul, and the New York Times shuddered. All the fears, however, were groundless for the Lewisburg experience had made Hoffa a different man. No longer was he the power-hungry union boss who stood accused of embezzling Teamster funds or bribing stubborn juniors...