Word: jailers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general lack of direction. Ellen Gambulos's Adele, the chambermaid who wants to be a star, showed a delicate voice and solid acting, except on occasions when she allows her pride in her steely top notes show. Brumit brings a rich, deep voice and commanding presence to Frank, the jailer; and Corey Stone '79 plays Falke, the "Dr. Fledermaus" bent on revenge, with flair, though his voice is comparatively bland...
...jailer took out a large metal key and opened a heavy steel door. Beyond that were "grungy guys and dingy, dark cells where you have to scrounge for toilet paper. The floor was grimy. The walls had been repainted about 25 times." There were four or five men in their mid-20's arrested on drug charges. After listening to the six-hour-long conversation of one prisoner with the chaplain. Yates was convinced the man had been framed on a rape or child-molesting charge...
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...rape suspect who allegedly preyed on lonely women in singles bars. Some mutter darkly about assassinating rapists if the courts will not convict. Feminists made a national cause celebre out of the case of Joan Little, the black woman acquitted of murder in the stabbing of a jailer who she says attacked her sexually. When Inez Garcia, a Chicane woman in Soledad, Calif., shot a man to death 27 minutes after he allegedly held her down during a rape, a smattering of feminists loudly applauded the act. Though troubled by this vigilante version of justice, Feminist Gloria Steinem asked...
...appearance on the witness stand was the climactic moment in the five-week-old trial, which had become a cause celebre among feminists and civil rights activists (TIME, July 28). Citing mostly circumstantial evidence, Prosecutor William Griffin contended that she lured the 62-year-old jailer into her cell with a promise of sex and then killed him in order to escape from the jail, where she had spent 81 days after being convicted of breaking and entering...