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...citizens of varied colors, classes, sexes and ages, each clinging to a black binder notebook containing identifying pictures of the 18 defendants. Facing them sit the defendants with their lawyers in three tiers of bolted-down seats. The lawyers, some retained and some public defenders, are mostly in their 30s, all exhausted, all affronted by what they feel is excessive judicial hostility to their clients. The word among lawyers in San Francisco is "Don't stroll by the courthouse. You may be tagged as a public defender." In California good criminal lawyers make up to $250 an hour. Public...
...metamorphic sculptures of Marie-Thérèse from the early '30s, involutes of swollen dreaming bronze in which cheek is conflated with buttock, mouth with vagina, have a wonderful tenderness and power as plastic surfaces. Even the plumpness of the bronze cast provides the suggestion of skin, while the slightly fuzzy texture of the metal further equivocates, not with the look, but with the feel of flesh. In some ways, the shapes of Marie-Thérèse, smooth and closed, are like the totemic bone forms of Picasso's grotesque anatomies of the '30s, the projects for immense figure-based...
...children. We are in the process of making a taped dialogue that painfully relives their horror and persecution. Why? I feel it is my responsibility to ensure that my children and future generations of our family will know in detail what happened to their German ancestors in the '30s and '40s. My parents can never forget; I will never forget; nor should any of us ever forget, lest it happen all over again...
...defiantly admitted his Communist activities and was still shouting "Long live the Communist Party of Yugoslavia!" as he was led away to serve a five-year prison sentence. He did more organizing work for the party after his release, traveling about Europe with forged credentials. In the mid-'30s he began using the alias "Tito," a common name in his home district. (It was one of many pseudonyms: in correspondence with Moscow, he was always "Valter," and it was by that name that Stalin knew...
...blond, formerly married to Shipping Magnate Robert Wagner, says she is only a Kennedy family friend. As for the Prince of Wales, they met après ski in Gstaad. "I don't discuss royalty," says Austrian-born Helga, who also will not get precise about her "early 30s" vintage: "You know you don't ask a European woman...