Word: prison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good hour into the movie, you suddenly realize that people are creeping from one closed space to the next, from the Christmastime police beatings in prison cells onward. Into such a world populated by officers who would just as soon as bury a broken bottle in your neck as arrest you, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) enters, a fresh-scrubbed "golden boy" with an absolute commitment to good. Exley is a little uncomfortable with the corner-cutting approach of the police chief Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), who dispenses tips on life with a thin smile that promises something violently wrong...
Once favored to become Mississippi's first black Governor, Espy is looking at more than six years in prison if convicted on all counts. But many familiar with the case believe Smaltz is unlikely to convince a jury that the young, personable Espy schemed to defraud the people...
...Barbara Cartland, Diana's stepgrandmother, spoke for xenophobic Britons everywhere when she sniffed, "My only concern is that this Dodi is a foreigner." A writer for London's Daily Mail was cruder, warning Diana that by marrying into the clan of Al Fayeds she would be "trading in one prison, the life-style of the royal family," for something worse, "an Arab...
SENTENCED. EGON KRENZ, 60, East Germany's last communist leader; to 6 1/2 years in prison, for responsibility in the shooting death of people trying to cross the Berlin Wall; in Berlin...
Symington's resignation, which takes effect tomorrow as he faces a possible 165 years in prison or $6.2 million in fines, did not come as a shock in a state that has become accustomed to political scandal. Symington was the second GOP governor in a decade to be forced from office by scandal...