Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relaxing in his office, Edward J. Waterhouse, director of the school, tells a visitor that young boys who live at Perkins do the same things as the students at any other boarding school -- including playing practical jokes. One night, a group of boys in a dormitory set up a trap for one of their mates who had gotten out of bed to use the bathroom. While he was out, the boys built a precariously high stack of soda bottles in the entrance of the room. The boy returned, his hand gliding against the wall for guidance; he crashed into...
Although a retrial usually benefits the defense, which then knows the prosecution's case, that advantage may be lost if the defendant takes the stand a second time, especially if he tells a new story. Armed with the first trial record, the prosecutor can trap him into contradictions. Yet if a defendant does not testify, the jury, despite all judicial admonitions, will probably infer guilt. Bailey, however, interviewed the first-trial jurors and was convinced that his client's rather arch answers on the witness stand had hurt him badly. Sheppard did not testify at his second trial...
Sneaky Beer. Many singers continue their eating and drinking while performing, following the tradition of Soprano Giulia Grisi, who, whenever she had to fall onstage, always landed near a trap door so that a stagehand could sneak her a glass of beer. In the Metropolitan Opera's current production of Electra, Birgit Nilsson's search for Agamemnon's ax is really a quest for a ginger ale stashed under a rock...
...reality in 2067, when the U.S. population tops 1 billion, and it takes three weeks to travel the traffic-jammed four miles from New York City's Battery Park to Times Square. (Actually, a lot of New Yorkers feel that 2067 is here already.) Caught in "The People Trap" are Stuart Whitman, Vera Miles, Connie Stevens and Lee Grant...
...Summer. As the faithful friend, longtime Svengali, and now the husband of Melina Mercouri (they were married last May), Director Jules Dassin periodically attempts to trap some of her wild Greek energy on film. His tempestuous Trilby, in her sixth Dassin movie, proves just one thing: the family that plays together does not alway make a Never on Sunday...