Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...under arrest. At that moment, three more squad members slid out from among the pack of passengers, eased up on either side of him and led him away. After agent Michael Lonergan read him his rights, Nicholson spoke just one sentence: "I want to talk to a lawyer...
...Lawyers for the 52nd pressed a different story, making sure above all that the jury did not hear about the 1986 and 1991 rod-crossing incidents, or the steps taken after Lowry's death to fix the problem. But a February legal review, required before any court-martial, strongly criticized that approach: the jury, an Air Force lawyer outside the 52nd cautioned, might see Mueller as "a victim of poor policy" and a "mere scapegoat...
...Goldman clan, who sat close to the witness box. And Petrocelli got right down to the business of punching holes in Simpson's credibility. "You are not as interested in specific facts as you are in the effect of his testimony on the jury," explains Wyoming criminal lawyer Gerry Spence. "Credibility is the entire, only, whole, absolute, 100% issue on cross-examination of O.J. Simpson...
...Lawyer has little foreign affairs expertise; with all those rich clients, confirmation hearings might be bumpy...
...cast is nearly perfect. Bebe Neuwirth is a taut and tangy showstopper as Roxie's jailhouse rival; Joel Grey makes mousiness memorable as Roxie's husband; and James Naughton is commanding and funny as her lawyer. Only Reinking, starring as Roxie (a role she first played in 1977), falls short: her lithe body hasn't let her down, but her husky, quavering voice does. Yet it's barely a smudge on a show that doesn't just give us the old razzle-dazzle; it glows...