Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Howard Silver, a Detroit attorney who is chairing the conference, said Sunday that the members of the Senate Select Watergate committee were good examples of what he described as lawyers who reverted to mediocre techniques after long periods away from active trial practise...
...Silver said the Watergate committee relied too heavily on exposition, did not follow up questions adequately and let witnesses take refuge in their opening statements too often...
After opening remarks by Silver on Sunday, the lawyers attended one lecture on the Consumer Product Safety Act and one on interviewing their clients more efficiently. They also held a seminar on "Representing Unusual Plaintiffs"--including alcoholics, persons with criminal records, ugly women, infants and old men, and the unemployed...
...their aristocratic facade hoping desperately for the Old South's return. The family is characterized by a savage stubborn streak and a suicidal recklessness, which contrasts with the demure tones of their surroundings. Faulkner's countryside is saturated with heat. The days are endless, windless, dissolving afternoons and slow silver moon of 'opaline tranquillity.' He peoples his book with "Negroes, slow and aimless as figures of a dark placed dream." And his characters' movements are "hushed,...sibilant...
...self respecting Sunday supplement scandal sheet, Parade, were asked why Mailer couldn't let the poor tortured girl rest in Peace? Dick Cavett and Mike Wallace grilled him on their video griddles; and not least of these attentions was the cover of Time Magazine, which had Mailer's fuzzy silver bush of hair being fondled by Monroe, a composite creation made possible by the insertion of a picture of the fifty year old dean of American literary machismo into a slot vacated by the original fondlee, Monroe's third husband--the former saint of the liberal theater in America, Arthur...