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...verdict: not guilty. The accused, Louis XVI, rose from his gilded chair before the revolutionary tribunal and returned to his rightful place as ruler of France. At least, that is how it went last week in Paris during a made-for- television re-enactment of the luckless monarch's 1792-93 trial, staged as part of celebrations for the bicentennial of the Revolution. TV viewers, playing the jury, telephoned their votes to the TF1 network, which, along with Le Figaro, staged the re-enactment. The result: 55% decided that Louis should be acquitted of the charge of "conspiracy against public...
...himself promoted to the top of the criminal justice system--Lord High Executioner. All other functions of state fall under the aegis of the corrupt, sneering Pooh-Bah (Kenneth Bamberger). The regal Mikado (Anton Quist) makes certain that the "punishment fit the crime"--that ludicrous laws decapitate luckless lovers. Fortunately, palmgreasing and artful seduction prevent anyone from getting hurt...
...over the grass in a ballet of aimless panic. The crowd on the grassy knoll looked like it had been swept with a giant scythe. The street was empty, a stark, lifeless slab of concrete that smelled of disaster. Kennedy's motorcade had been chopped in two like a luckless centipede, the front end blown to God knew where, the rear end writhing and thrashing...
...Crimson is ranked eighth in the nation and looking for its first NCAA playoff bid since 1980. Unranked and luckless New Hampshire, a team that lost to Yale by only one goal, hasn't had a very memorable season and is now just one game away from summer vacation...
Gilbert wasn't the only unlucky element on the court Harvard's own defensive problems in the first half almost left Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith in a luckless state...