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...pugilistic, 4-ft. 11-in. lawyer with bad hair and a long list of no-good clients has about as much chance of getting her own TV talk show as she has of successfully defending a rich parent killer, right? Right. Unless she is LESLIE ABRAMSON. "After 25 years of cross-examining, I know how to ask the right follow-up question," says Abramson of the show, in development for the fall of 1996--after she defends Erik Menendez for the second time...
...have ever seen. It asked many private questions.'' Watching fellow jurors being investigated and dismissed--in one case the juror's hotel room was searched--has only exacerbated the panel's feeling that they have lost their privacy and, like O.J., are under arrest. Says noted defense attorney Leslie Abramson: "They're being guarded by people who are used to treating everyone like prisoners. They need crisis counseling.'' But, adds Abramson, "there is not a shred of possibility that Ito, who is a smart fellow, is going to declare a mistrial over the defense's objections without some legal justification...
...bratty conservative monthly the American Spectator, published The Real Anita Hill, which suggested that Hill was a woman romantically obsessed with Thomas. "Nutty, and a bit slutty," he called her. Now comes Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), in which Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, reporters for the Wall Street Journal, offer a picture of Thomas as a man possessed by racial resentments and by good-looking female staffers, whose assets he was not above pointing out to them, loudly and often. In other words, nutty and a bit slutty-minded...
Mayer and Abramson make their most original contribution in the sections that draw a picture of Thomas' personality, which were based on interviews with dozens of people who knew him. By the time he got to law school at Yale, they write, Thomas was already known "not only for the extreme crudity of his sexual banter, but also for avidly watching pornographic films and reading pornographic magazines, which he would describe to his friends in lurid detail." Acquaintances say when they heard testimony that Thomas had asked who put a pubic hair on his Coke can, they recognized his characteristic...
...Thomas-Hill Books. Call it neo-Thomism. Recent additions include Senator John Danforth's Resurrection and Jane Meyer and Jill Abramson's Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas. If ever we become tired of the Democrat/Republican two-party system, we could always mold American politics around the great Thomas-Hill divide...