Gasquet acknowledged that a break point against him in the second set was a crucial juncture.
Mr. Forester also holds Microsoft, which he acknowledges caught a break when its approaches were rebuffed by Yahoo and Facebook last year.
Mr. Stolar, who has said that he will seek to prove that the government entrapped his client by using a confidential informer, acknowledged during a break in the proceedings that his client's statement that he thought the prosecutor was his lawyer sounded like "nonsense" on the witness stand.
No one acknowledged an individual breaking point.
Society acknowledges a moral right to break the law in extreme circumstances each time a sitcom cop pulls over some hapless guy for speeding and asks, "O.K., buddy, where's the fire?" The implication: if the driver really is racing to extinguish a blaze, exceeding the speed limit is acceptable.
And most co-ops look the other way, according to residents and city officials, as long as buyers sign a waiver acknowledging they're breaking the law.
Nevertheless, Ms. Corwin acknowledged, she had earned a break, having built from scratch something that the theater world has come to depend on and take for granted.
After all, would an African-American in Southeast D.C. who violated a gun law -- and wouldn't acknowledge it -- get a break?
Planned Parenthood would barely acknowledge the break, answering my questions with a written statement from its policy director, Dawn Laguens, who said, "Though in recent years, we have disagreed on a few key pieces of legislation, we look forward to continuing to work with Senator Collins on issues that are mutually important to her and to Planned Parenthood".
Yet, for all its self-questioning, Cameraperson is a film that, as Johnson cheerfully acknowledges, cannot break free from the process it exposes: it, too, has been created though a process of selecting, editing and, yes, constructing images.
