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Word: jacke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial, which lasted 9 full court days, involved the first rape. Mims' assistant, a lawyer from the NAACP, George E. Hairston of New York, came into a head-on confrontation with Cullman County Judge Jack Riley. Judge Riley told Hairston at one point in the trial, "We may yet have to send you to law school." At times during the trial, Riley would order Hairston to remained confined to his seat and not move. Riley also overruled every objection that Mims and Hairston made, and had the jury under a suppression motion--meaning that the all-white jury received information...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Southern Justice: 1978 | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

...river, the green palms and the multi-colored chaos of the crowded street bazaars. The film captures well the contrast between the eternal mysterious Egyptian land, and the seemy, passionate turmoil of the cruisers, who float majestically down the Nile while plotting their little intrigues. Director of photography Jack Cardiff also filmed "Caesar and Cleopatra" and he really knows the turf...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Christie on the Nile | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...stripped down to what a seven-man band can handle on stage. Bowie's vocal machinations, so clever and startling out of the studio, lose some of their sparkle when forced to follow one another in sequence. The side has a nightclub feel, like a good band at Jack's going through some of Bowie's old hits. Bowie doesn't even take a beat between each song, a la Ramones: keep those tunes rolling and drinks flowing...

Author: By Kerry Konrad, | Title: Spaced-Out | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

...been endless. Instead, Belushi pops up in only a few scenes where he can show off his Mexican accent and look sleazy. Expanding the part, or casting Belushi in a more prominent role, might well have saved the movie from becoming a low-budget exercise in the training of Jack Nicholson, director. But that's just how it wound up: filming more of the familiar amber-and-brown-soaked Texas landscapes doesn't seem a sufficiently compelling reason for making a movie, much less watching it. To have wasted a talent as versatile and fresh as Belushi...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: A Misbegotten Marriage | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

When Hobson finally did ask to be taken out, Jack Brohamer came in and helped to mend the defense. The Red Sox went on to win nine of their last 11 games to tie the Yankees for first place...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: HEROES and FOOLS | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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