Word: klines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophie Zawistowska is Camille at Auschwitz, the beautiful woman with a guilty secret, twice torn between two people she dearly loves, first in Poland, then in New York. Her catastrophic past has given her mercurial moods: giddy with ecstasy at the antics of her lover Nathan (Kevin Kline) and her puppy pursuer Stingo (Peter MacNicol), then darkly ruminative as memory provides her with waking nightmares. Even as sketched by Styron in overwrought prose, Sophie wove a spell over millions of readers...
...depicts could have been narrated by Sophie in a few minutes, and should have been. (The film runs about 2½ hours.) But Sophie is not the only obsessed person in this romantic trinity: Nathan has his lunar side too, which flashes on and off at unexpected intervals. Kevin Kline is an engaging actor who can play both ends of passion, the delightful and the deranged. He cannot play both simultaneously-who could?-and his character suggests two halves of an incoherent whole...
...David J. Kline, the author of the memo, noted that "with the present universe of hundreds of thousands of non-registrants, the chances that a quiet non-registrant will be prosecuted is probably about the same as the chances that he will be struck by lightning." He predicted elsewhere that "the present passive identification program is liable to result in adverse judicial decisions based on defendant claims of selective prosecution...
...first three cases tried, the defendants did in fact argue that they had been chosen from an illegally limited universe. But both federal judges summarily rejected the motions. When the men from Justice brought their act in October to Los Angeles, however, they encountered the difficulties Kline had prophesied seven months back--Judge Terry Hatter Jr. bought the arguments and shifted to the government the burden of proving it had acted fairly...
...units have been sold to date. Osborne carry-along machines are already being used in courtrooms (lawyers' briefs can be recalled on the screen for a quick read), in the wilds of Kenya (to gather zoological research) and in war-torn Afghanistan (U.S. Freelance Writer David Kline used one to file news reports). Where no electric socket exists, the machines operate on portable battery packs...