Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ford happily accepted the challenge. With Pakula, he spent a week at the Wayne County (Detroit) prosecutor's office observing a murder case. He quizzed lawyers at lunch and took files back to his hotel at night. At one conference a question arose -- about the relative heights of shooter and victim -- that stumped the real lawyers. "Harrison was the only one who knew the answer," recalls chief assistant prosecutor George Ward, "because he had studied the pictures of the two persons. He really did his homework...
...heart of Presumed Innocent is a murder trial, its intricate arabesques portrayed in breathtaking detail, in which the defendant is almost -- almost -- certainly not the guilty party. The Burden of Proof offers a hero, Alejandro ("Sandy") Stern, the brilliant attorney who defended the accused narrator of Presumed Innocent, who must reconcile his responsibilities to his profession with those to his family. As the novel makes clear, Sandy cannot do both...
...than to hold their breath for answers. Turow, a lawyer who has kept jurors as well as readers on the edge of their chairs, has a preternatural knack for drawing out the suspense. The gimmick in Presumed Innocent was to follow the mystery through the eyes of the accused murderer, Rusty Sabich, a public prosecutor on trial for the murder of an amorous colleague. The intimate narrative device ensured reader sympathy, even though Sabich waited until the final pages to tell all he knew about the corpus delectable...
...Lady relationship was easy. Bush had already conceded victory to Gorbachev in the shopping, weight and wardrobe wars. Years of sitting at fund-raising dinners have taught her how to look fascinated by a lecture on multiple warheads, all the while fantasizing, perhaps, about curling up with the latest murder mystery later on. When feigned interest fails, she employs another tactic. Says Rebecca Matlock, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: "Barbara knows how to change the subject when Mrs. Gorbachev begins, you know, talking like she does." For her part, Raisa helped things along by not kicking...
King's wife spoke in her husband's place, and used the occasion to criticize President Lyndon B. Johnson's response to the murder both of her husband and of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy...