Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poor Professor Handlin--his true life's work has been abused and distorted by faction writers. Mario Puzo, author of Fortunate Pilgrim, betrayed the historical method in fabricating "the shiny Godfarther" less than ten years later. And television, that boxed perpetrator of evil, flaunts docudramas such as "Washington Behind Closed Doors," and "Truman at Potsdam...
...interview last week in his Ritz-Carlton hotel room, Norman Jewison, director of And Justice For All, discussed why he made the movie--"I've always felt there were two laws in this country. One for the rich and one for the poor. I've always been suspicious of lawyers, but I've only seen the films about kindly lawyers...
...point he doesn't yet believe. Only after he defends a gay accused of robbing a cabbie, a man jailed for months for a missing taillight, and a stiff trial judge accused of rape and sodomy, does he realize how justice overlooks the powerful while staring down the poor...
...more and more entangled in the recondite workings of the hospital, he loses sight of his mission--to rescue his wife--and begins to accept the wild illogic of his new environment. In the end, he is driven to reconciling himself to his condition, and, as he embraces the poor, diseased nymphomaniac melting in his arms, he embraces his own disease. It is only in this affirmation of his loneliness and illness that the narrator affirms his human identity...
...days of vigorous investigation produced nothing on President Bok's lavatorial literary leanings. His secretary, however, allowed that the boss "definitely did not wish to respond" to such a query, and then she put in her two cents worth: "Personally," she scolded, "I think it's in very poor taste...