Word: newman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gatling is one of the 615 convicts who have graduated in the past three years from "street-law" courses taught in correctional institutions in the Washington, D.C., area. The program is the brainchild of Jason Newman, 37, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center who believes lawyers must do more "to have laymen understand the legal system and know it's there to help them, so they can use it and not abuse...
Well, says Willie-now 75 and sprung-it's a good line. But the fact is that some reporter made it up. Thus Sutton declines credit for the most perceptive self-analysis since Cardinal Newman's Apologia pro vita sua. Obviously he is an autobiographer devoted to veracity at all costs...
...modest three-bedroom house in Laurel Canyon with his Japanese-American wife Teruko and three children, Williams spends free time meditating, sketching, writing poetry and working out daily in a gym. His life-style more closely resembles that of such famed loners as Robert Redford and Paul Newman than that of Billy Dee's gregarious idol Clark Gable. "I am still searching," says Williams seriously. "I think I have been chosen to be recognized in a certain kind of way. Producers are beginning to see me in situations other than black. I am part of an innovative force...
...more dutiful leap toward modern realism takes place in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and falls a bit off-balance. Williams actually meant Paul Newman's character, the football star on the skids, to be haunted by his betrayal of a male lover (here, a male friend). They had to gloss over all the hints in this version, but Newman does well with the toothless make-shift. Elizabeth Taylor doesn't deliver the performance I expected from the legend, but those fond remembrances may have hailed back mostly to her more svelte youth. And both actors have...
...that is funny, enlightening, musical, at moments terrifying and above all funny?" Zevon's high-spirited blend of country rock, bluegrass and churchy harmonies is marred by the fact that he has a raw, gritty voice and cannot sing very well. But neither can Bob Dylan or Randy Newman. Those who come to hear Zevon perform are not purists. They are beguiled by his lyrics, which typically are about Chicano hustlers, Sunset Strip women and hotel-bar bums. A quatrain from his ballad Desperados Under the Eaves: "And if California slides into the ocean/ Like the mystics and statistics...