Word: von
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tape), but titles are multiplying rapidly. Following its initial series of 18 storybook classics (Thumbelina, read by Kelly McGillis; The Emperor's New Clothes, with John Gielgud), the company has just launched a new collection of folktales from around the world, featuring stars like Denzel Washington and Max von Sydow. Also in the works: legendary American tales and Bible stories. The videos are being run on the Showtime cable network, and Raul Julia is recording them in Spanish...
...author, perhaps best known for his defense of Claus von Bulow, was a central character in the film Reversal of Fortune. Ron Silver accurately portrayed him as an amalgam of clenched hair and perverse brilliance. Those eager for a sequel have only to consult Chutzpah. The title is a Yiddish term that resists translation. In a word, gall. In two words, Alan Dershowitz...
...irresistably led to admire Dershowitz because he has a sturdy and true moral compass. As a public figure, he sticks up for ideals of human rights and civil liberties where others would let pragmatism prevail; as an attorney, he is famous for defending pariah clients such as Claus Von Bulow and Leona Helmsley and insisting on procedural regularity and the rights of the accused. But just like a compass needle starts to go awry in the neighborhood of a magnet, Dershowitz's moral compass often veers from course when the topic at hand is Israel or Judaism...
When West German President Richard von Weizsaecker was invited to speak at the 1986 Harvard Commencement, Dershowitz staged a one-man protest against the appearance. (The index entry reads "Dershowitz, Alan, protests Nazis honored at Harvard, 90-91.") Weizsaecker's crime? As an attorney, he defended his father, a high-ranking Nazi diplomat, in a war crimes trial. Representing an unpopular criminal defendant! Why of all the heinous, rotten, despicable acts...
...Harvard's decision to invite West German President Richard von Weizsacker was accompanied by an extended controversy. Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz declared that he would protest the decision because he believed that the president had continually denied that his father knew about German war atrocities. Weizsacker had defended his father in the Nuremberg trials...