Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although this shopping period of eight days wasthree days longer than last semester's, it wasstill shorter than the normal 10-day shoppingperiod, says Registrar Margaret E. Law...
...follows the adventures of lawyer Dodd (James Woods) and his associate Roger Baron (Robert Downey, Jr.) as the investigate the eight-year-old case of a gang-murder in Chinatown. Woods plays a jaded lawyer who was once a great civil-rights attorney, and Downey portrays an idealistic young law-school graduate who has come to New York to work for his idol, Dodd. True, Dodd has done nothing for the past ten years but defend drug dealers, but somehow Baron is unaware of this fact. Yet it doesn't matter, for with his perky attitude and strong moral consciousness...
...unfair to expect realism in a movie? Television shows like L.A. Law and Night Court certainly don't portray the legal field with complete accuracy, so why should one expect any more from True Believer...
True Believer aspires to a loftier goal than the camp of L.A. Law or Night Court. With black-and-white flashbacks and and an overdose of overhead spiraling camera pans, True Believer attempts to be more than the B-level shlock it actually is. You aren't supposed to take the antics of T.V. lawyers Dan Fielding or Arnie Becker seriously. But you aren't supposed to laugh at Dodd...
Wolf says one major issue raised by the Binney St. garage is the city's lack of independent legal advice. Only two of the nine councillors are lawyers, and the city's only resource on matters of law is its solictor--who worked for Healy...