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JUSTICE FOR ALL? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Edwin Newman searches for answers among the urban, migrant and rural poor, who have often been denied access to the law. Cameras focus on low-income people in Cleveland, Salinas, Calif., and rural Oklahoma. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and local administrators discuss the problems and possible remedies...
...name, and if only she had a prettier one-say, Marguerite-some of her yearnings would be satisfied. Not that Clara was ever exactly sure what she was yearning for. Born in a flatbed truck on a muddy Arkansas highway, brought up in a series of squalid, lice-infested migrant labor camps, Clara simply suffered from a painfully tugging notion that life was a nasty, frightening dream, and that somehow, some day, she would wake...
...Garden of Earthly Delights, she takes Clara from the filth and mis ery of migrant camps through a period as a shopgirl and finally into avaricious and vindictive middle age. Devoured by love for the men in her life and, in turn, obsessively devouring her weak bastard son, Clara eventually drifts into madness rather than give up her fierce search: "If nobody gives me what I want, I'll steal it. I want somethin'-I'm goin' to get it." Only in the last 50 or 60 pages of the book does the author loosen...
Minimal sculpture, when seen indoors, commonly overwhelms the viewer. Outdoors, it takes on what Curator Tuchman, 30, calls "a heroic quality." Besides, it gets the benefits of the California sunshine, which Tuchman, who is a recent migrant from New York, describes rhapsodically as "more diffuse, more intense, with a pervasive glare, a kind of luminescence." Sol Lewitt's white jungle gym, for instance, gains a thousand chunky highlights from the sun. The California show also clearly demonstrates that the new cool geometry, which is often combined with bright color or gleaming industrial surfaces, is a truly nationwide movement...
...Harvard recently, Conyers made a prepared speech proposing a coalition of the nation's disadvantaged groups -- Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans, and migrant farm laborers -- and called for aid from sympathetic intellectuals. But he spent most of his time meeting with students and Afro-American Students. And even to those Negroes at Harvard who have come -- quite understandably in the past few years -- to believe that politics is not the final solution, he came off well...