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...student Shannon M. Barrett said that "such a disparity...skews how people look at criminal defense and hurts the people who don't have the money...
...ELAINE SHANNON says persuading tobacco-industry tattler and 60 Minutes star Jeffrey Wigand to talk to TIME was like "skiing a double black diamond run." The former Brown & Williamson exec is under a court order not to discuss his years in the nicotine business. "But he could talk about his decision to play David to Big Tobacco's Goliath." Shannon, a Washington bureau correspondent who has covered "nearly every Washington scandal since Watergate," won Wigand over with the persistence and honesty that have marked her 27 years as a reporter. "You're very direct," a DEA agent once told...
...Shannon May, polished and not at all self-conscious, makes an absolutely arresting impression in almost every one of her scenes. The force of her talent gives the two "murder" sequences--when she informs a lover, "I killed you," with deadly and restrained passion--a drastically disproportionate significance. Whether she is flickering in the light of a green strobe or pacing across the stage reciting Shakespeare from a tiny book, she maintains a stunning poise that gives the play far more credibility than it deserves...
...cast has shown itself to be quite able. There are a number of talented impressionists in the group, including Tim Meadows, who can juggle O.J. and Michael Jackson with a skilled facility. Another high point of the season has been Molly Shannon's disturbed Catholic schoolgirl. As she jumps unprovoked into midair and falls into people and folding chairs, Shannon has proved to be a first-rate physical comic...
...basic setup is yet another variation on one of soapdom's archetypal conflicts: the pitting of the poor, conniving, tube-top-wearing vixen against the tasteful, trust-funded beauty. Peyton Richards (Jamie Luner) is the former, Savannah's pre-eminent troublemaker; her rival is the kindly, blond Reese Burton (Shannon Sturges), an heiress with the IQ of Spanish moss...