Word: case
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...case of Saddam, the name-calling is far from preposterous. He has unleashed a blitzkrieg against a weak country on his border and committed mass murder -- using poison gas, no less -- on Iraq's Kurdish minority. But there is nonetheless something pernicious about the analogy. Regardless of how those making the comparison try to qualify its implications, there is a danger that many of their readers and listeners will, at least subliminally, take the point to its invidious extreme: Saddam equals Hitler, ergo Arabs equal Nazis. As a brutalizing corollary, the forces fighting the Jewish state, from P.L.O. commandos...
...Jakes is no simple detective thriller whereby the case, however complicated, is solved by bizzare clues or outrageous coinicidence. The clues in this film (there is a bewildering number of them) becoming increasingly inconsequential as the plot progresses. What waxes important are the central characters: their lives and their complex, intimate psychological motivations...
Gittes tells himself that sometimes the biggest clues are the ones that were right on front of your face all along. The Two Jakes dervies its power from Gittes' introspection. He comes closer to finding the solution to the case--and his own peace as well--when he is able to peer inside Berman and find himself. This film is not called The Two Jakes for nothing; Gittes and Berman share more than the same nickname...
...Attorney's office for securities fraud. Hartnell, who owns a brokerage house, has long held a reputation as a ruthless businessman. His practices have always teetered on the illegal, and he is accused of using inside information to make a profit on the Chicago futures market. Hartnell's case is complicated by testimony given--in exchange for immunity--by Stern...
Despite the strength of the mysteries, much of the attention in Burden of Proof is on Stern's own personal development as a result of his wife's suicide. For the most part, this process makes a strong story. Turow makes a convincing case for the profound impact Clara's death has on him, and as a result keeps Stern's several-page-long thoughts about her from becoming tiresome...