Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begun its legal career (TIME, Dec. 22), and its Topeka appearance was apparently the second time that one has ever been viewed in court by a judge in the U.S. But the tape is not likely to be surpassed soon for dramatic impact. In preparation for the second trial, Kid-well's lawyer had sent him to the nearby Menninger Clinic in the hope that he would tell doctors there a clearer story about the murder night than he had yet told anyone else. Psychiatrist Joseph Satten, chief of Menninger's law and psychiatry division, decided...
...time, it looked as if the kid was headed for trouble. He and his pals raised quite a bit of hell, hanging around pool parlors (where Bob became a pretty good hustler), swiping things from the local stores. He straightened out soon enough, and for a while sold newspapers on a street corner. John D. Rockefeller used to come by in his chauffeured car every day to pick up his 20 paper. One rainy afternoon the old millionaire handed Bob a dime. Hope had no change, so he offered to trust Rockefeller for the money. "He wouldn't hear...
...eyes" and bril-liantined black hair; he even appears to have "the stunted legs that seemed grotesquely inadequate to the grownup bulk they supported." Scott Wilson, as Dick, has the "long-jawed and narrow face tilted, the left side rather lower than the right," and the "American-style, good-kid" manner that can bounce a check or a baseball with equal ease. It is their performances that lift the film from documentary competence to near brilliance. In the end, the actors have become the criminals, understandable if not forgivable, and Perry's last words, "I'd like...
...become a universal myth. Any country with a horse and a revolver can make or fake a western-and most have. But to satirize the myth is another matter. With their astringent Lemonade, the Czechs prove that they not only love the western but understand it well enough to kid the Levi...
...defined the four phases of riots as "a precipitating incident, street confrontation, Roman holiday, and seige." In the third phase, he said, "there is a carnival-like atmosphere. It's the kid's day in the sun, and no one can tell them what...