Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experimenting with the form of classical tragedy, Mr. Miller has introduced a pseudo-Greek chorus in the character of Alfieri, the neighborhood lawyer who comments on and occasionally participates in the action. This part is intelligently and movingly played by Dean Gitter, though one might wish he had chosen either to perfect or to ignore the Italian accent. His last soliloquoy was particularly effective, I felt...
Then, in a double take, he said he wanted to make sure what he was in agreement about. "I know that I am dealing with a very good lawyer, and I want also to uphold my miners...
Nixon: You would have made a good lawyer yourself . . . After all, you don't know everything...
Khrushchev complained that his impromptu TV appearance would not be translated into English so Americans could understand him. Nixon promised that it would be and-the good lawyer-said quickly: "By the same token, everything that I say will be recorded and translated and carried all over the Soviet Union. That's a bargain." Khrushchev swung his hand in a high, wide arc and literally slapped it into Nixon's to seal the agreement...
Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's brilliant courtroom drama involving murder, rape and outspoken language about both. James Stewart as a deceptively easygoing lawyer and Lee Remick as an accident-prone tart are excellent, but famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch steals the show as the judge...