Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slipped into another. A full 15 pages of Jackie's personal reactions remained in the proofs. "I read them with horror," said one family friend. Goodwin called on Manchester, told him of all the objections that remained. "I'll go think about them-and talk with my lawyer," said Manchester. He seemed in no mood to yield. A monthly Manhattan tabloid, Books, quoted him as taking, around that time, the position: "Let's get out the book as I wrote it-and to hell with the Kennedys...
...that, Warren approved the use of informers in two related cases. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr. was appealing his own conviction (3½ years) for trying to slip $10,000 to one of Hoffa's Chattanooga jurors. In Osborn's case, the informer was Policeman Robert Vick, who had originally been hired by Osborn to investigate Hoffa's Nashville jurors, and who was later asked by Osborn to help bribe a prospective juror. By then, Vick had switched sides, and with approval of two judges, the feds had armed him with a tape recorder into which...
Judge Fiok finally ended the testimony over the objections of "Lawyer" Mayberry, who refused to stop cross-examining one of his own witnesses. During the judge's charge to the jury, which, by law, defendants must hear, Fiok was forced to have the cater wauling trio gagged, put in straitjackets, and finally ejected to an anteroom to which his words were duly piped over a loudspeaker...
...Negro man and a white woman to see which combination will lure more customers to the box office. Two seasons ago, the lucky combination was The Owl and the Pussycat, juxtaposing an erudite white bookstore clerk and a hoydenish Negro prostitute. My Sweet Charlie pairs a highly articulate Negro lawyer (Louis Gossett) from the North and a slatternly white mushhead of 17 (Bonnie Bedelia). One after the other, they break into a Gulf Coast cottage in search of refuge. The girl, pregnant and unwed, has been thrown out by her father. The lawyer has killed a white man during...
...well as the state. Sir Thomas, unable in all conscience to take the oath, nevertheless decides he is "not the stuff of which martyrs are made." Being the greatest wit of the age, he decides "to serve God wittily, in the tangle of the mind." Being the sharpest lawyer in the kingdom, he darts through a loophole in Henry's law. "I will not take the oath," he announces gravely to Thomas Cromwell (Leo Mc-Kern), the leader of the King's pack of political jackals. "I will not tell you why I will not." Cromwell: "This silence...