Word: prison
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What kind of effects will follow in the wake of this mighty demonstration? Well, besides gaining intangible benefits such as renewed determination, self-confidence and religious revival, the marchers were also instructed in practical ways to improve their communities. Voter registration, adoption of black foster children and outreach to prison inmates were suggested. Education, entrepreneurship and moral living were also stressed. Given the energy and the boldness that this march unleashed, it is hard to see how the black men who participated can resist transforming their communities...
...Previn," notes critic Richard Corliss. This was the story of 1992's "Husbands and Wives," and it returns in this tale of a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife and a five-year-old adopted son. Allen's take on marriage is bleak, clueless; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. But in spite of all this, Allen still has his deft sense of humor: there's a good movie lurking behind his public troubles. "The suspicion lingers that Woody Allen deserves a good spanking, and not from...
...suggesting, the pair have accorded themselves another lettered badge of shame--picture them cheerfully crowning one another with conical hats emblazoned with the letter 'D'. With this film they will make public life their prison; their tortures will be the jeers and abuse of their audience. Yet such pain pales in comparison with the cruel and unusual punishment they have inflicted on the movie-going public...
Moreover, as inflammatory and cynical as Cochran's tactics may seem to whites, there is little proof that black jurors go easy on black defendants solely due to race. In heavily black jurisdictions such as Washington, mostly black juries routinely send African-American defendants to prison when the evidence merits it. History shows that from Mississippi during the civil rights era to Simi Valley in the '90s, it is all-white juries that tend to exonerate defendants of their own race despite the evidence...
SENTENCED. MEL REYNOLDS, 43, Democratic Congressman; to five years in prison, four for sex with an underage campaign worker, one for covering it up; in Chicago...