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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when its reorganization plan went into effect. No longer will criminal cases be tried de novo?from scratch?on appeal, and it will be easier to move judges around from court to court to even up work loads. Some courts have also improved efficiency by hiring professional administrators to set schedules and assign cases...
...courthouse was too noisy, was allowed to stay on the bench until he died last year at age 79. Examples like these, not to mention frequent charges of senility and laziness, have spurred congressional interest in disciplining judges. A Senate bill, supported by Attorney General Griffin Bell, would set up a court on judicial conduct to remove unfit judges...
...political scene very fresh. The film's breathless rehash of the G. Harrold Carswell case and its failure to acknowledge the active role of the post-Watergate press corps in Washington date it by a decade. The stale details of Director Jerry Schatzberg's grander set pieces - among them a predominantly white and middle-aged Democratic Convention - look like the '50s of Advise and Consent...
Fellini's crucial error is his movie's governing conceit. Rehearsal is built on a single, restrictive metaphor: the notion that a symphony orchestra can stand as a paradigm of society as a whole. Set entirely in a lovely 13th century oratory, the film ostensibly describes the rehearsal of an unnamed piece by the late film composer Nino Rota. But very quickly Fellini bends his dramatic situation into a cautionary tale about the dangers of anarchy. The musicians begin by goofing off and refusing to play together; then they break into open, violent revolt against their German conductor...
There are, along the way, some marvelous set pieces, most especially when Zaza is taking lessons in how a man sits in a chair or butters toast...