Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...running short of funds and has to rely on a makeshift approach to reach large numbers of voters. Taking a tip from the old Burma Shave advertisements, he is setting up a series of signs on a busy highway in the district. They read: I'M NOT A LAWYER/ OR A DOCTOR/ DON'T CHARGE HIGH FEES/ I'M HERE WHEN YOU NEED ME/ AND THERE WHEN IT COUNTS/ RE-ELECT DAVE EVANS. Starting this week, Evans will stand by the final sign, waving to motorists during rush hours...
...America, there is an energy crisis," Jack Cole, a Boston journalist, lawyer and Anderson supporter, said last night, leading off the fourth of five tapings of the PBS T.V. series "The Advocates" at the Institute of Politics...
Generally, the actors survive their director. Donald Sutherland presents the essence of the WASP lawyer, a martini with legs, without becoming a cartoon; Timothy Hutton is impressive throughout, although distanced somewhat by his technique, and reminiscent in his mannerisms, of James Dean. When the actors do lapse, though, they look like they're auditioning for a Method class in the Village, and this can probably be chalked up to Redford...
...trouble building a constituency outside his native Bavaria, the heartland of German conservatism. He campaigned enthusiastically, wading into crowds and sparring with hecklers. But his colorful rhetoric tended to reinforce his image as an emotional and erratic right-winger. "There is a lack of stability in his makeup," said Lawyer Wolfgang Wilde, 40, an independent voter in West Berlin. "Moderate Germans feel that he could lead us back to cold war confrontation...
Naturally, many defense attorneys have misgivings about this brand of judicial hardball. "I still think part of the presumption of innocence is taken away," says Chicago Lawyer Jack Rodgon. "Every time I get a case at the Rock, I say to myself, 'Oh God, here I go again.' " Nevertheless, Rodgon concedes that some of the defendants deserve their harsh sentences and says he can "live with" the court. Others are more critical. John Ackerman, dean of the National College of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Public Defenders in Houston, charges that repeat-offender programs are "just trying to hammer...