Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Angry and proud, Claire resolves to fight back. Employing a ruse, she secures a lawyer (Susan Kellermann), who brings in a sympathetic psychiatrist (Joseph McCaren). A judge (James Higgins) finally presides over a crucial trial in Claire's room. He declares her psychologically fit to make the mortal decision to leave the hospital. Near the end of the play, Claire utters a kind of farewell monologue to life. As delivered by Moore, it provokes the sting of involuntary tears...
This was not the first time that the sex magazine had a run-in with Kodak. Last July the film processor withheld 285 out of 2,000 slides showing Pet of the Year Cheryl Rixon. Eventually Penthouse's lawyer, Joseph Kraft, picked up the pictures at Kodak's plant at Fair Lawn, N.J., along with a warning not to ask for similar shots to be developed in the future. The magazine had been sending its Pet of the Month Kodachrome film to the company for developing for more than seven years. Only in those two cases...
Athletic director Richard Perry, who would speak only with a university lawyer present, said he had met with commissioners in the Pacific-10 conference to discuss the situation. The commissioners said USC was not in violation of National College Athletic Association rules, Perry said...
...with her brother and sister, who asked her if the authorities had treated her badly. Lu responded with a faint smile and said they had not, Gerrit van Derwees, U.S. coordinator for the ICDHRT, said earlier this week after talking with lawyers for the dissidents. As Lu met with her siblings, another prisoner, Lin Yi-hsiung, a lawyer and legal adviser to Formosa Magazine, told his mother that he had signed a confession involuntarily. Lin's mother later called a friend in Japan to describe her son's condition. Two hours after she made the call...
...Lookout Mountain Hill, a mudslide destroyed two houses and left the $1.25 million mansion of famed Divorce Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson tottering on the edge of a cliff and in danger of being washed away by the next storm. He was resigned to losing the house, which engineers doubted could be saved. He quipped, "I can live in my office, I can practice law in the courthouse and I don't see my wife much anyway...