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William Miles, the Harlem-born writer and producer of the series (who was responsible in 1977 for the splendid World War I documentary Men of Bronze), is obviously in love with his subject. Instead of an ordinary documentary, he has fashioned a kind of oral and visual history, with long interviews with those who remember (including one ancient man who recalls the famous buzzard of '88). Occasionally the interviews take their own good time-and the viewer's-as Miles lets his oldtimers wander too far down history's obscure bypaths...
Though lawyers are forever vowing to go "all the way to the Supreme Court, "few get there, if only because the Justices take just about 150 cases a year. Understandably, attorneys making their debut before the high bench hope to shine in the hour or so of "oral argument" allotted for a case. But the experience can be humbling, especially for lawyers whose world is largely one of poor clients and local courts...
Lifton telephoned Sibert for an explanation, but was told he had to write to FBI headquarters. He finally received a letter saying that the agents got their information about the surgery from oral statements made by the autopsy doctors during the examination...
...usual graduate-school scenario: three university professors facing down one anxious scholar during the dread oral exam on some deservedly obscure topic. Who cared? The President of Egypt, for one. And if Anwar Sadat figured the rest of his country should also take an interest, who was going to argue? Thus when First Lady Jehan Sadat, 47, defended her master's thesis (on the influence of English Romantic Poet Shelley on Arabic literature), the entire 2¼ hours were presented on national TV. At the end of the program, Anwar's angel got an A. Predictably, sniped some...
...State Supreme Judicial Court heard oral argument yesterday morning in a case that will decide the fate of Cambridge's controversial ordinance limiting condominium conversion in the city...