Word: nichols
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William R. Grant, education writer for the Detroit Free Press, and Michael J. Kirk, public affairs director for Seattle television station KCTS will also spend next year at Harvard, as will Lynda M. McDonnel, a business and labor reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, and Judith Nichol, Maryland editor of the Washington Post...
Right at the outset, a veteran charter fisherman, Nichol Dance (Warren Gates), threatens to kill his upstart competitor Tom Skelton (Peter Fonda). The remainder of 92 in the Shade is spent waiting for this inauspicious event to occur. Neither Dance nor Skelton pays any mind to fate or fortune, an attitude that makes for short suspense. This did not matter quite so much in Thomas McGuane's novel, which went heavy on atmosphere, but it pretty thoroughly confounds any movie adaptation, including, sad to say, the author...
...guess this has been a bad year for justice, a bad year," said U.S. District Judge Fred Nichol, 62. At the very least, it had been a bad eight months as Nichol presided in his St. Paul, Minn., courtroom over the trial of Indian Leaders Dennis Banks, 42, and Russell Means, 34, on charges stemming from last year's 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee, S. Dak. After Means called a witness a "liar," Nichol cited him for contempt; later he threw Defense Lawyers Mark Lane and William Kunstler in jail overnight for arguing with him. The prosecution...
Rather Ashamed. Last week Nichol did what he had earlier threatened to do: he dismissed all charges (three of assault, one each of larceny and conspiracy) against the two defendants. "It's only fair to say I am now over the brink," declared the exasperated judge. What pushed Nichol over was Kurd's refusal to allow the case to be decided by only 11 jurors after the twelfth became ill. "I'm rather ashamed that the Government was not represented better in this case," said Nichol in the course of an hour-long denunciation of the prosecution...
...Mike Nichol's The Graduate, with Dustin Hoffman, Saturday and Sunday...