Word: team
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Morris shares the limelight in the Georgia death penalty struggle with Millard Farmer, 45, who heads Team Defense, a money-starved Atlanta organization that represents about 10% of the state's death row prisoners. As his three criminal contempt citations indicate, Farmer pulls no punches in the courtroom. Once, while defending a black charged with killing a white police chief, Farmer's effort to have an impartial judge preside over the trial led to the disqualification of five judges. The prosecuting attorney was so upset that he burned one of his law books. "I don't have...
...team of Texan critics take textbooks to task...
After the compulsory exercises, the American women were in fourth place. But competing on the beam, three American women went up and three fell off, one of them twice. That did it. The team finished a disappointing sixth. Lamented Coach Linda Metheny Mulvihill: "Everybody tightened up. It was a little scary for the girls." The grande dame of the championships turned out to be Nelli Kim, 22, who saved Soviet honor by winning the all-around title. Her gold-medal performance in the floor exercise was women's gymnastics at its best, a mature blend of dance and acrobatics...
...Dejun admitted that the gap had hurt his country's development program. Said he: "During the Cultural Revolution, many of the schools were closed, most of the spare-time sports academies were closed, and for five years there was no training for our gymnasts. Our men's team has one gymnast who is 30. He started gymnastics before the Gang of Four. The rest are very young, and they started after the troubles in China. But we have no one in the middle. So now we must do two years' training in a single year...
...premise is as overblown as its execution. 1941 seems to be composed of ill-matched parts of The Russians Are Coming, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Animal House, The War of the Worlds and I Wanna Hold Your Hand (also written by the Lorraine team of Zemeckis and Gale). Set around Los Angeles right after Pearl Harbor, the film shows what might have happened if panicky Californians had convinced themselves that they were under Japanese at tack. The frantic characters come in all ages and types. There are jitterbugging kids at a USO dance (Treat Williams...