Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three Best Picture nominees dominated the Academy's voting: Sir Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi with eleven nominations; Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack, with ten; and Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with nine. (The other contenders for Best Picture: Sidney Lumet's The Verdict and Constantin Costa-Gavras' Missing...
...nominated, as expected, for Sophie's Choice. Perhaps the strongest category is Best Actor, which this year promises a tight competition, free of Hollywood sentimentality and the tradition of awarding nominations to make up for past oversights. The nominees are Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Paul Newman in The Verdict, Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year, Jack Lemmon in Missing and Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie...
...into the flea market business. During the five-week trial, boisterous crowds, often outfitted with bags of food and drinks in ice chests, waited in line for a seat in the small courtroom and a chance to hear the latest installment of Vigliotto's romantic adventures. After the verdict, Gardiner said of the women who succumbed: "I don't think they fell for him. They found someone who told them what they needed and wanted to hear at that time in their lives...
...that it elevates the principle of indirect responsibility to international cognizance. The jurists at the Nuremberg trials went to great lengths to cite positive acts, "crimes against humanity." No one was charged with just standing by. The difference in the Israeli report (apart from its not being a court verdict) is that at Nuremberg a victor was judging a fallen enemy, whereas here the accused were called to account by their own people...
...history decided otherwise, and the people of Lyon, after almost forty years of frustration, have every right to exact revenge. Barbie's trial may take more than a year to prepare and the harshest possible verdict would be life imprisonment, since France abolished the death penalty in 1981. Yet how can one every pay enough for crime against humanity, for the thousands uprooted from their homes and sent by the trainload to Auschwitz and other camps? As Jacques Block, President of the Jewish Federation of Lyon, put it: "The crimes of this man are such that there is no penalty...