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...went after an audience, this movie will make clear how deeply she needed that kind of wild acceptance. When Janis talked about feeling good, it always came out forced. When she sang, though, people responded, not so much to the exultation of her music as to the plea and the desperation that lay close underneath it all. Twice in the film-after performances at the Monterey Festival and a Cavett show -we watch her receive stops-out acclaim with hungry thanks and with a look of full radiance. Joplin's misfortune was that she lived so hard just...
...case of the Harlem Four, whom New York was attempting to bring to court again after six years, two mistrials, and an overthrown verdict. Those were only three examples of an entire racial consciousness of dragnet arrests, trumped-up charges, manufactured or flimsy evidence, dubious identifications, legal technicalities, forced plea bargains, lack of decent or concerned counsel, delayed trials, vengeful prosecutions, excessive bail, stiff sentencing, and violating of civil rights and liberties. Amnesty was the only demand that really mattered...
...spend his sentence working with 6,000 Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, using his legal talents to help them with land-use problems. If he were permitted to do that, he said that he would make no effort to appeal his conviction. Sirica made no comment on this plea as he sentenced Ehrlichman to prison...
...week Burns told New York Times Columnist Leonard Silk that the U.S. Government should have persuaded six or so oil companies to put up $50 million each to bail out the airline. Pan Am Chairman William Seawell failed in earlier attempts to get help from the U.S. Government; his plea last September for a $10.1 million monthly subsidy fell on deaf ears...
...enforcement requires a daily $1,000 fine for as long as the companies are improperly retained. The tough decision raised court watchers' eyebrows for another reason. The majority had taken an essentially liberal trustbusting position, and the critical fifth vote was that of Harry Blackmun. In the guilty-plea case, Blackmun's had also been the fifth vote. He and Warren Burger, close friends since childhood, have long been called the "Minnesota twins" for their conservative voting records on the court. Experts are now wondering if Blackmun has begun to set a separate and more liberal course...