Word: alibied
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...District Attorney has officially turned off the tap of information, clues like this one indicating the direction of the investigation continue to dribble out. At the same time, defense attorneys have been aggressively scrambling for evidence to undermine the D.A.'s case. But one "fact" supporting an O.J. alibi seems to have fallen through. Nicole Brown Simpson wasn't talking to her mother on the phone at 11 P.M. the night of the murders -- when O.J. was at home waiting for a limo to the airport. Nicole's father now says the conversation took place...
...admissible; it was broadcast live. Of course he did it -- he had beaten her before, he was high on coke, he had gone into a jealous rage; of course he didn't do it -- he loved her too much, he was incapable of such savagery, he had an airtight alibi. Maybe he could have done it, but surely he would have been smarter, hired someone else and not left a trail behind...
...cold war era the U.S. can shed its arduous international responsibilities by transferring them to the U.N. or sundry other multilateral constructions. The subordination of America to the will of "the allies," or the U.N. Secretary-General, or the even vaguer notion of the "international community" provides a convenient alibi for failure. But it is also a near guarantee of failure and a source of endless, needless humbling of the planet's sole remaining superpower...
American Jews tended to ignore, or even alibi, black anti-Semitism because they had long been conditioned to hearing violent and plainspoken hate talk about themselves from the extremist right, and for years had trouble discerning the very same noises coming from those whom they took, mistakenly, to be liberals like themselves. Members of the organized Jewish community also have an enormous investment in their relations with the black community, having for so long a time been the most visible and generous nonblack allies of the civil rights movement...
...feel really observant as you confront the characters with their deeds. The production takes care of every detail to ensure your satisfaction and allay any doubts: at one point, a member of the audience is summoned to the stage to place a phone call to verify Mrs. Shubert's alibi. After running for ten years, no accusation is new, and an answer to every possible question has been carefully prepared...