Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pacino steals the show as the head of a truly diabolical New York law firm that snags Keanu Reeves' hotshot Southern lawyer and quickly enmeshes him in a half-kinky, half-campy world of sin and decadence. Borrowing from The Firm and Rosemary's Baby without quite matching either, it tends to flag whenever Pacino's off screen. Fortunately, he's never away for long and treats us to a devilishy good time with his rip-roaringly over-the-top antics...
Richard Gere takes Hollywood's latest shot at China--this time attacking its system of criminal justice (or lack thereof). Solid courtroom drama and a fine performance by Bai Ling as Gere's lawyer are ultimately let down by a muddled ending...
Kenneth May, Laurence's brother and a Cambridge lawyer, agreed. "I vote for candidates," he said. "There aren't a whole lot of issues...
...last three mayors--the only three I remember--have been, a short, bald, conspicuously single Jewish man with an at-times painfully irritating voice who went on to bigger and better things as the judge on. "The People's Court"; a soft-spoken African-American liberal lawyer who is now a professor at Columbia; and a widely acknowledged big ole' meany, speculated draft-dodger and adulterer...
...outfitted with a V chip to filter out video violence and sex. Still unclear is what Net broadcasts could be affected. The idea alarms free-speech advocates, who wonder why Americans need a Net-nanny. "What you get is a devolution of the First Amendment," argues lawyer Bob Corn-Revere. FCC chairman REED HUNDT says the high-tech industry can "be part of the process" as the agency sets rules. There's a low-tech alternative: the off switch...