Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTY CARATS is precisely the sort of show that people say helps them to forget the trials and tribulations of the day. The story of Julie Harris as a middle-aged lady wooed and won by a lad just about half her age is never less than civilized...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. The nominal subject of this chilling film is kidnaping, but Director Hubert Cornfield uses it only as an excuse for conducting a surreal seminar in the poetics of violence. The small cast is uniformly excellent, but Marlon Brando steals the show with some of his best acting since One-Eyed Jacks...
Nonetheless, there are good reasons why even the best experts should disagree. One is that only difficult borderline mental cases ever get to court in the first place. Defendants who show obvious symptoms of illness are committed to institutions immediately, as incompetent to stand trial. The offenders who are left, Yale Law School Professor Abraham S. Goldstein points out, are usually men who seem calm in the dock even though they may have been seriously disordered at the time of the crime...
Margin for Error. Such cases would raise perplexing professional problems under the most clinical of circumstances. Is an accused criminal presently sick? Psychologists know that batteries of tests, such as the Rorschach and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory used on Sirhan, show only the probability that a man has certain personality traits; they have a built-in margin of error when applied to one individual. Even though experts may agree on the diagnosis of a man's present state, they often have difficulties when pressed to project it back to his condition at the time of the crime. The link...
Three weeks ago the Supreme Court ruled that the Government must show a defendant the transcripts of any illegal eavesdropping on his conversations or conversations on his premises-or else the Government must drop the case. Justice Department attorneys were aghast. Was the court unaware, they wondered, that there are bugs in foreign embassies, and that in many cases the Government could hardly disclose all details of such an eavesdrop? Attorney General John Mitchell called the court's decision "a great disappointment," and Solicitor General Erwin Griswold took the unusual step of filing a Government petition for a rehearing...