Word: tappings
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...conducts family affairs with brutal efficiency. This development is only implicit in the script, never stated outright. Pacino carries it off with exceptional intelligence and energy. The triumph of his performance is that it conveys Michael's youthful sensitivity without ever losing an edge of animal menace. To tap the right mixture of emotions, Pacino says he "thought a lot about music while I was doing the part -and of an image. I saw Michael as though there was a circle of light and heat around him, shining on his face, that he was always trying...
...members of a left-wing group called the White Panthers, but the principal suspect, Lawrence ("Pun") Plamondon, learned that federal agents had overheard some of his telephone conversations. Plamondon, a onetime sandalmaker and co-founder of the Panthers, demanded to know what evidence the Government had acquired from the tap. Government lawyers refused to tell...
...tap was perfectly legal, they said, even though it had been installed without a judicial warrant, because warrants are not necessary in cases involving a threat to "national security." This is true not only for the traditional danger from a foreign power, the Justice Department maintains, but also for the security threat posed by the current radical protest movement. Besides, the Government said, the overheard conversations had nothing to do with the bombing charges, and the tap was on the phone of another organization, not the White Panthers...
...Secrets. The prosecution did agree to send details of the tap to Federal District Judge Damon J. Keith, who was presiding over the Plamondon pretrial hearing. Keith rejected the Government's arguments. He ruled that according to an earlier Supreme Court decision, if the Government wanted to prosecute Plamondon, it would have to tell him what it had overheard so that no illegally obtained evidence would be used against...
...soon as they lift the receiver. If the first number they punch is 0, for example, they will automatically get the operator. Even worse, the tune they select might well complete an expensive call to London or Paris. Experienced players usually place a local call to a friend and tap out new melodies to him only after the connection has been made. Otherwise, the explosive spread of the fad seems to be limited only by two factors: 1) the relatively small number of pushbutton phones in service and 2) the lack of # and * buttons (necessary for Happy Birthday and certain...