Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Planned Violence. The trial took place under the eye of a 74-year-old judge with a penchant for becoming personally involved in the matters before him. U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman, no kin to Abbie, refused to delay the trial for seven weeks so that Black Panther Scale could be represented by his regular lawyer, Charles Garry, then about to be hospitalized. When Scale repeatedly shouted for the right to defend himself, Hoffman had him bound and gagged, and eventually handed him a four-year sentence for contempt. The judge severed Scale's case, thus reducing the Chicago...
...again, on-again faggot with an occasional taste for whores and five-year-old girls; Martin's mother Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), a glacial blonde castrator, with her power-hungry lover (Dirk Bogarde); and assorted relatives who reveal such minor personality flaws as criminality, sadism, cowardice, and a timely penchant for Nazism...