Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Shahak's activities certainly arouse controversy and anger in the Israeli political arena, he avoids political alignment with any group. Labeling himself as a fiscally conservative "anti-Marxist," he nevertheless works closely with many socialists and communists, including outspoken lawyer Felicia Langer, whose defense of the many Palestinians brought before Israeli tribunals has made her one of the most prominent members of the Israeli peace movement...
Visit her flat, a half-furnished encampment that looks as if someone got a great bargain in white paint, and Allen is on the phone. Interview Allen in his penthouse, a comfortable layout that might belong to a literate lawyer, and Keaton has just called. Anxieties have gnawed dangerously at confidence during the night, and repairs must be made. "I'm a guilt-ridden, anhedonic type," says Allen, whose conversation can sound like a Woody Allen movie without the jokes. He lives with despair, gloomily believing that his films "are all strikeouts. None of them achieved what...
...cheaters with the cruel excuse "They had it coming, they had it coming." Roxie fears all is lost until she is taken under the wing of the ward matron Mama, who for a small fee, is pleased to point her in the direction of a cunning and flashy lawyer named Billy Flynn...
Roxie tricks her husband into providing the lawyer's fee--cash in advance--and Billy shows her how to make herself into a local Patty Hearst. The front page boys hang on every word as the dramatic Flynn moves Roxie like a puppet. He dramatizes the plight of the poor, innocent girl victimized by cruel men, and thrown pregnant into damp country slammer; of course she shot in self-defense as the man threatened to strangle her for refusing to cheat on her beloved husband...
...inflates so much, in fact, that she at one point ridicules Flynn as a "greasy mick lawyer" and claims she can do better as her own defense. She dismisses the warnings of the worldly Flynn who says, "You're a phony celebrity Roxie, a flash in the pan--in two weeks nobody'll know who you are kid.... That's Chicago." But after one of Velma's girls is convicted and receives her just desserts at the end of a rope, Roxie agrees to dress up like Susy Homebody and bring a bit of vaudeville to the jury...