Word: case
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Hampshire Supreme Court unanimously upheld a woman's right to sue her doctor for failing to inform her that a case of German measles while she was pregnant put her in grave risk of having a child with serious birth defects. The woman contended that if she had received information from her doctors about the potential for birth defects she would have had an abortion. In a separate concurring opinion Souter raised an issue that the full court did not address...
...reasons: 1) the virtually undetectable plane's costs are soaring ($63 billion for 75 planes), and 2) the ebbing of the Soviet threat has left the bomber without a clear-cut mission. Says Aspin: "Much has happened in the past year, but nothing that has happened has improved the case...
...those cases, Souter seems to have been acting as a lawyer putting forth the best argument he could on behalf of his client. But friends still talk | about the zeal Souter brought to one of the few cases he personally argued as attorney general: whether the state or the Federal Government had jurisdiction over Lake Winnipesaukee. Combining his love of New Hampshire with his passion for history, Souter headed off to museums and historical societies to dredge up scraps of information. He spent weeks with ancient maps spread out over his office, scanning each meticulously to ferret out tiny differences...
...photo of the woman's corpse almost immediately and certainly disturbing cuts away to the scene in which a laughing Horgan introduces Sabich and Polhemus. The scene then quickly shifts to Polhemus showing a molested child to Sabich in the hope that he will take on the child's case, and a few clips later Sabich and Polhemus are undressing on his desk at work. The progression of such scenes makes Sabich's memories quite powerful, makes his tears seem genuine when the camera finally returns to him holding the photograph in his wife's presence...
...order for an audience to appreciate a parody, they need to be familiar with the subject being ridiculed; in the case of The Freshman this is a doubled-edged sword. No one who has seen The Godfather will, without great difficulty, be able to successfully separate Brando's characterization of Don Corleone from his characterization of Carmine Sabatini. In the viewer's mind Brando's various incarnations of the mob boss blur, and along with the confusion goes The Freshman's hopes for a separate successful identity...