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Kaminskaya's most significant criminal case is both a lesson in unfamiliar Soviet legal procedure and a riveting mystery thriller. In 1967 the parents of a 16-year-old boy, Sasha, engaged her to represent him in a sensational case. Sasha and his pal Alik had been charged with the rape and murder of their classmate Marina in a village outside Moscow. During six months of pretrial detention the boys had confessed, then recanted. The prosecution's star witness was an old woman who claimed to have heard Marina cry out as the three youngsters passed under...
Clark has maintained generally cordial relations with the Secretaries of State and Defense. Indeed, he regards his good pal Weinberger practically as a client. Once each month or so, ostensibly to clear the air of tensions, he and Secretary of State George Shultz, accompanied by one aide each, hold a two-hour rap session. Yet that has not stopped the widening rift between...
...symbolic effect is amplified, too, when industrious, influential citizens by the million become cocaine scofflaws. A computer programmer snorts with his pal the lawyer, who buys grams from her neighbor the contractor. The builder also sells ounces to the local junior college teacher and the restaurateur, and buys his pounds out of town from a full-time coke broker in Florida. "Getting coke is just a telephone call away," says Chuck, 34, a San Francisco insurance executive...
Dignity is a quality that Shroeder Duncan, the laid-back loser of Murphy Guyer's Eden Court, would gladly settle for. Murphy has a dead-end job, a cluttered mobile home, a cynical pal (Steve Rankin) and a wife (the elfin Holly Hunter) who still carries a torch for Elvis Presley. This comedy's ambitions are no loftier than Shroeder's; it is just a tasty slice of lowlife, but full of sweet feeling for its tattered eccentrics. As Shroeder, Actor-Playwright Guyer is a brown study of the good ole boy, wondering what ever happened...
...Someone else the author will probably not work with in the future is Robert Redford. The actor's role as the Sundance Kid helped make him a megastar. By the time of All the President's Men, Redford was no longer Goldman's old pal but his producer. "He had asked me to come to Utah for the month to work with him - and he wouldn't give me his phone number." This was before Redford invited him to look over a second screen play of the same book, written without Goldman's knowledge...