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Wheeler and her tutor, who was acting as her lawyer, were guided through several locked doors before entering the penthouse board room of CRR. The proceedings that followed, she said," confirmed what everybody had been saying about CRR-that it was a kangaroo court." She sat before a panel of committee members, the table between them covered with photographs...
...come along that so clearly demonstrates the potential abuses of the form. The Atlanta Child Murders, written and co- produced by Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg, King), unearths no significant new evidence; it merely sifts through the record to reconstruct the defense's case. The film's kangaroo court then convicts the Atlanta police of incompetence, the city's black leadership of insensitivity and the criminal- justice system of railroading a suspect on the flimsiest evidence...
...novels of the mid-1920s, Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), veered toward the worship of supermen, blood-consciousness and dark gods. Only in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), his last novel, did he return to the subject of men and women in love that he had discarded with Mr. Noon. Then, throwing caution to the winds, he opened that bedroom door completely and apparently for good...
...comedian will cavort with the Krofft puppets, tell stories about his own childhood, and impersonate several characters, including Chills, a hip saxophone player, and Carlotta, a savvy fortuneteller. The weekly half-hour may be a long way from the Sunset Strip, but it's not in Captain Kangaroo's neighborhood either...
...points, and a year's supply of mental floss, what American philosopher, whose latest book has been ensconced on the New York Times best seller list for 40 weeks, described the stance of a pregnant woman as "like a kangaroo wearing Earth Shoes...