Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ashley also discovered that Sheriff Mclntosh was dealing sternly with two people who resented this largely connubial personnel policy. Bernie Scale of Booneville, source of the original tip, had drawn 30 days in jail for drunkenness. Nedra Gabbard, twice divorced, unemployed and the mother of five, was arrested for driving up a hill too slowly. Both had applied for jobs that went to officials' relatives. Mclntosh dismissed the two as ne'er-do-wells unworthy of public employment. Of Mrs. Gabbard he added: "Besides, she doesn't even have...
Ashley's prodding led to a statewide anti-nepotism order. But the Booneville officials retaliated: Campbell announced that the county would accept no more federal employment funds, and Mclntosh busted Ashley on the charge he had falsely identified himself as a lawyer when he interviewed Scale in jail...
...their statistical arguments, both sides call on the personal impressions of professional experts. Police consistently encounter criminals who say that they used no gun during a robbery because they feared the electric chair. Prison authorities, who tend to oppose the death penalty, report that these same criminals, once in jail, say that they simply did not want to kill anyone and that they told the cops whatever they thought the cops wanted to hear...
...arrested as a communist leader (and that one has to be seen to be believed), a poor street gamine (Paulette Goddarde) steals bananas. On the dry hot streets of Los Angeles in the middle of the depression the gamine is nearly arrested, until the gallant Chaplin recently released from jail, takes the rap. Chaplin takes us to jail with him, but only for the immortal nose-power scene is which the poor convict comes across a bit of cocaine and begins a series of pirouettes. Eventually, Chaplin encounters the gamine again in a paddy wagon from which they blissfully escape...
...threat of the talkies, and invents his idiosyncratic answer. It is this entirely personal quality that Chaplin, as writer, director, and star of Modern Times puts across to his audience by confronting and revealing himself at every turn--finding beauty in the most painful situations--even when in jail he is up on nose powder, and even when he breaks down he dances...