Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speculation exists among legal observers that previously denied motion by Popkin's attorneys that would have required the government to reveal the nature of any intercepted oral or wire communications may play an important part in the court's decision...
Throughout the jury's marathon deliberation, the defense was never idle, firing off one motion for a mistrial after another. Obviously perplexed by the legal complexities of the charges, the jurors on two occasions asked Federal Judge R. Dixon Herman to please re-explain exactly what comprises a conspiracy. His explanation, the defense objected, was "contradictory, irrelevant to the issues, grossly confusing and repetitious." In one note breaking down the subdivisions under count 1, the all-important conspiracy charge, the jury asked: "Do we find some of the defendants guilty if we have evidence that they have conspired...
...water mill with columns that carry the mill stream above the wheel? Not quite. On close examination, the building is incredible. The water is flowing uphill. The columns and the millrace could never be built: they are contradictory. So Escher's water mill, turning in perpetual motion through a kind of dimensional warp, becomes a vivid warning that art is not reality...
Charlie was edgy on the plane from Bermuda, where he had been resting for a few days before setting foot in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had invited him to receive a special award at Hollywood's Oscar ceremonies, and the Film Society of New York City's Lincoln Center was throwing a big party for him at Philharmonic Hall. But what about the audiences? Would they respond again to the comic humanity of his Little Tramp? Would they resurrect the old resentments at the leftish...
...week's end the Charlie Chaplin who arrived in Hollywood to receive his second special Oscar-for his "incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of this century"-was still an old man who did not walk very fast or see very well. But he was not the same old man who had arrived in the U.S. a few days earlier. He knew that he was home and-as he said-that he had been reborn...