Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either his room or the corridor outside contain areas of light into which he invariably steps. At a central point in the film he goes to visit his dying mother. As he lies to her about her health and bends over her bed, rays or light cross him like prison bars. That light should entrap is something almost inpermissible in our set of conventions; Bresson's use of it to convey a value almost totally discredited in our society is as daring as it is right...
...proceedings against him lasted barely ten minutes, and within the hour the prisoner was locked inside a heavily guarded cell in prison. Only then did police announce last week that they had placed charges against the suspected killer of Tom Mboya, the pro-Western Minister for Economic Planning and Development who was gunned down outside a Nairobi pharmacy last month...
...devious with friends and editors. There is no doubt, however, that Babel's life was brief. In 1939, after nearly a decade of playing the quiet and lucky mouse to Stalin's cat, the 44-year-old writer was snatched off to Moscow's Lubyanka prison and never heard from again. As the prison gates closed behind him, he was heard to utter, with a sly smile, "I was not given time to finish...
Miss Stanley was released after spending eight days in the city prison. The judge refused to lower bail for the third time in yesterday's hearing held to decide probable cause. The judge decided that sufficient evidence existed to send the case to the Grand Jury...
...Inciting to riot" is a felony that carries a one to three year prison term or a one year term with a maximum fine of $1000. Miss Stanley said that bail money was still needed for one of those arrested with her as well as for legal expenses for everyone arrested...