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...torture in a South African jail. Now he is the house humanitarian for a local corporation, supervising a back-to-the-land project. Its design: to drain revolutionary energy away from foreign investments and native rulers. Jimmy Ahmed, a racial mix of yellow, black and white, runs this sham commune as a means of assembling responsive young boys; his heart is back in London, where trendy liberals once puffed him up from criminal to Third World celebrity. Roche's English mistress is a bored adventuress who likes to taunt men. This trio forms, as things turn out, a menage...
...father (Peter Frisch) served him as an effective foil. Lorenzo (Danny Snow) managed to project a kind of cortesia Castiglione would have recognized. The only serious miscasting was the Duke of Venice himself (David Garcia) who lacked the eloquence to make his magnanimity seem better than a sham. Graziano (Dan Riviera) left his role in a shambles, just a little too rasping and sinister to fit in with the overarching Shakespearean theme...
...gave $46,000 to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President just before a federal law barring such anonymous gifts went into effect in April 1972. In order to contribute the other $54,000 without revealing his identity, he used third parties as sham donors; Hammer also concedes that when he was questioned about the donations by the Senate Watergate committee, he lied. Having pleaded guilty, he faces fines of $3,000 and possibly three years in prison, though it is unlikely he will go to jail even for a year...
...they agreed with the decision. Judge Don Young told the jury: "You are owed the gratitude of everyone in the courtroom, regardless of whether they benefited by your decision, and of everyone in this free land." Shouted Thomas Grace, a wounded student: "What freedom? This trial has been a sham in every way." Arthur Krause, whose daughter Allison died at Kent State, delivered a similar verdict: "Thanks to these jurors, murder by the state is correct...
...takes some of Oscar's and Nicky's own talent for self-destructiveness to bungle a story about their mismanaged capers, and Mike Nichols has spared no effort to this end. The Fortune is a bleak, frostbitten farce, desperate for invention and rather a sham...