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...defense had summoned Daley as a witness in hopes of strengthening its argument that the authorities, not the radical leaders, had caused the violence. To put Daley on a verbal rack, however, required a ruling from U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman that the mayor was a hostile witness. That label would have allowed Defense Attorney William Kunstler to lodge leading or accusatory questions. Without it, Kunstler was restricted to more general interrogation, because Daley was technically a witness for the defense...
Highly Motivated. Despite his widely publicized, seemingly quixotic journey, Ross Perot is a modest, if highly motivated man. The son of a cotton broker, he neither smokes nor drinks, drives a five-year-old car and buys his conservative suits off the rack. He met his wife Margot while he was an Annapolis midshipman, and they and their four children live in a relatively modest four-bedroom house in Dallas...
...were viewing the crucifixion and being crucified at the same time. The incantatory rendering of dialogue sometimes resembles the Mass. The sounds that the cast utters are as arresting as if they were the cries of the damned in hell. On the rack of torment, Cieslak's body shudders convulsively from head to toe, and few athletes could begin to match the physical suppleness of a cast that seems as fit for dance as drama. At times, the company freezes in still lifes of agony. One is constantly aware of Cieslak's psychic pain, a pain beyond tears...
...discover the incredible fragility of the individual-alone, or as a member of a group, a generation, of an Establishment or the anti-Establishment. For a time we lived apart from the ebb and flow of the larger society and those things that put men on the rack. The student generation now with us insists, quite correctly, that the academic institution has enormous power and that we should be careful about what we think and about what we believe and do. And the realization of the scope of this power creates a responsibility to the edge of the stone...
What is to be said to a white student who is on the rack because we adults have left him a guilt derived from living in an incredioly violent, racist, and cruel world...