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...firm will now petition the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari requesting the Massachusetts First Circuit Court of Appeals to certify the record of its decision last year to uphold the Phase Two busing orders handed down by Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity last spring, Gleason said...
...mundane matters of nature. No such constraints apply to the people involved with The Wilby Conspiracy, which features a proper white engineer (Michael Caine) and a black revolutionary (Poitier) dashing about South Africa with a cache of hot diamonds. Director Ralph Nelson (Lilies of the Field) and his writ ers evoke mocking memories of The Defiant Ones by giving Poitier his custom ary handcuffs and a weak bladder to go along with them. This combination of circumstances results in a certain amount of anguish, requiring the reluctant assistance of his unfettered friend (the exemplary Caine...
...inveterately confusing, has to do with Jonathan E. bucking the corporate biggies and refusing to retire on command. Director Norman Jewison (Jesus Christ Superstar) and Screenwriter William Harrison champion nonconformity and the glories of individuality against a faceless state as zealously as if they had just discovered these notions writ large on a fiery tablet. Only those for whom these ideas are also a revelation will appreciate the cautions that are strewn throughout the film like pennants waving in the cheap seats...
...newspaper column. With the diminution of these outlets, the stories have found their way between cloth covers. No matter how thick those covers, they cannot disguise the poverty and pretension of the contents. It may be true, as Edwin Booth observed, that most actors' work is writ on water. Alas, it is truer to say that most actors' lives are rot on paper...
...case, Time and Newsweek would have been ecstatle. A random savesdropping of the chatter of Harvard Class of 1970's fifth reunion gave doubles evidence to the notion that yesterday's revolutionaries have beaten their awards into scalpels and traded their red books for writ books. These is attendance were primarily lawyers and law students, with a smattering of doctors, academics, and other professionals, and one unemployed moot-suiter...