Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HALDEMAN. Seated at a table from which he can readily see the jury and smile at the spectators (see chart), the now amiable Haldeman has shed his crewcut, stern image. He cracks jokes during recesses, signs autographs, confers at ease with his tart-tongued attorney, John Wilson. Often shouting and showily unimpressed by the judge, Wilson has tried to provoke Sirica into intemperate statements. He seems intent on seeking an unfair trial so a conviction could be reversed on appeal...
Spain has long held a firm grip on man's imagination. It is the land of mystery, a Gothic tapestry sewn together from strands of brutal sunshine and lustful blood, of tart wine and even tarter women. It is the secret of thunderous clouds menacing El Greco's Toledo; the acrid fire consuming the bodies of heretics during the Inquisition; the melancholy strains of a guitar played after a day's labor in the fields; the gnarled branches of the olive trees that cluster throughout the sun-beaten hills. It is the legend of the independence of the leather-skinned...
...normally expect to be private." One of Ehrlichman's attorneys, Andrew C. Hall, protested that the judge's charge was too favorable to the prosecution. Beyond that, said Hall, Gesell's "facial expressions and demeanor" during the trial had been harmful to the defense. But the tart-tongued jurist replied that there had not been much of a defense. It had been mainly a matter of "dodging around various issues of the case." Given Gesell's charge, the jury had little choice but to find Ehrlichman guilty of conspiracy...
...Christmas-tree tinsel of the Twelfth Night season, the pervading color of all the solid objects and their trimmings is silver. A close inspection, however, reveals a number of human skulls outlined in the surface textures, as though to suggest--quite rightly--that there are sombre or tart undertones in this play, which many people take to be all sweetness and light. With Marc Weiss's ever helpful lighting, the overall effect is pretty, if on the tawdry side...
...outspoken jurist's conduct on the bench. A Yale Law School graduate (1935) and longtime Washington attorney in both private and Government practice, Gesell, a Democrat, was appointed to the federal judiciary by Lyndon Johnson in 1967. He generally takes a libertarian line and has been a tart critic of Government wiretapping, restrictive anti-abortion laws and the Nixon Administration's mass arrests during the 1971 May Day antiwar demonstrations. Noted for facing judicial issues headon, Gesell has been both helpful and damaging to Nixon in the President's judicial showdowns. He rejected the Administration...