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...pleasure to report that this Richard III employs many performers who look young, for the play is largely about people under the age of 30. Nearly half of the company assembled by Ernotte and his star have recently acted with Moriarty or are members of the Potter's Field troupe founded by Moriarty three years...
...importance of the stakes, however, was underscored by the extraordinary vehemence of some of the dissenting opinions. In the abortion case, Justice Thurgood Marshall asserted that the majority ruling would drive many women "to back-alley butchers." Justice Potter Stewart chose to dramatize his dissent in the contracting-quotas case by reading it aloud. He accused the court majority in effect of endorsing "racism," and he practically spat out the word. Justice John Paul Stevens added that if race is to be a criterion for receiving public funds, the Government will have to start spelling out who belongs to what...
Director Dorothy Lyman has meshed the two women's disparate natures with the controlled firmness of the potter's hand. Brennan has the personality of a vulnerable bulldozer, while Sarandon arcs over and under her emotional crises like a dolphin...
While supporting a broad definition of what constitutes interrogation, the court in last week's ruling decided that the police had not infringed on Innis' rights. In the majority opinion, Justice Potter Stewart observed that the patrolmen had no reason to think Innis was unusually disoriented or particularly susceptible to observations about the welfare of the handicapped children; the officers' "offhand remarks" therefore should not be viewed as a form of interrogation or its "functional equivalent." Two of the dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, felt the remarks should indeed have been read as an appeal...
...clever than other men: he is the son of a regicide and knows that the throne he will inherit has been made slippery by blood. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," cries his father. David Gwillim adroitly captures all Hal's contradictions; then, like a master potter, he molds them into that noble vessel, Henry...