Word: lancasterism
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As he demonstrated in last summer's Gregory 's Girl, Bill Forsyth is a master of the throwaway turnabout. Here, with a tenser situation and a somewhat richer mix of characters, he makes about the kind of advance one would expect from him, modest and self-effacing. Maclntyre...
If you really want to get even, get a lawyer. Despite that standard advice against representing oneself in court, Mia Lancaster could find no lawyer whom she thought willing and able to press her charges against her former boyfriend. So she argued her own case. A Manhattan jury was impressed...
Lancaster, 28, was suing Tyrone Kinder, 38, who she says promised to marry her. Instead, Lancaster testified, he absconded with the young model's $11,000 life savings and other personal property, including her modeling portfolio. In 1975 she dis covered that Kindor had invested some of her money...
Lancaster tried a variety of lawyers but was dissatisfied. In fact, she unsuccessfully brought complaints against three of them with the American Bar Association for alleged malpractice. After working briefly as a legal secretary, which she says taught her nothing about the law, Lancaster read an evidence textbook and compiled...
In court, she argued that Kindor was guilty of malicious prosecution for having her arrested. The jury awarded her $ 1 million for that charge and $21,000 for the loss of her property and savings. Her obsession has yet to pay off in cash, of course, since an appeal is...