Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cast is unmanageably large. Some 60 people have to be present for the trial to proceed. Customarily present are Judge Samuel Conti, 58, born and educated in California, reputed to be hard on drug-law violators. He has tried attempted Presidential Assassin Sara Jane Moore and Black Panther David Hilliard. Last February, 4½ months into the Hell's Angels affair, the judge collapsed from exhaustion. Court was recessed as he rested up for two weeks. The prosecution's "Hell's Angels Task Force" sits at a center table: four lawyers and a shifting group of federal...
...Samuel Ussia wants to spearhead a second Renaissance at the intersection of Hampshire and Portland streets. Ussia, president of the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, hopes the construction of a $1 million Italian Center of Culture in Cambridge will be "the tool by which Italian-Americans insert themselves into the mainstream of the historical process in America...
...Sure, I love ravioli, and I can kill a bottle of wine, but I'm also part of the intellectual and civic community, both among Italian-Americans and the community at large.' --Samuel Ussia...
...trials continued, the leader of the coup, Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe, 28, was settling in as head of state. Each day began with a flurry of announcements. He decreed, for example, that all members of the national football team would go on the government payroll, and that the date of the coup, April 12, would thenceforth be known as National Redemption Day. At week's end he imposed martial law. Several times a day he roared out of the executive mansion in his Mercedes limousine to visit schools, markets and other gathering places. Wherever he went, thousands...
...MOON over the Mather House courtyard would delight Samuel Beckett as it dodges behind thick black clouds during this outdoor production of his existentialist tour-de-force, Waiting For Godot. By play's end, it nestles out of sight, casting an appropriate bleakness over a wet and shivering audience. The sky matches Beckett's play in its inability to illumine. The stage slipped between Mather House's cement blocks stands bare of even the smallest of miracles. No leaves flutter on the lone tree that cowers behind a tiny desert. A flute echoes as the only sign of regeneration when...