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...books reflect their authors' public personas. Darden's autobiographical memoir is brooding, complex, ambitious and at times emotionally overwrought. He has a habit, for instance, of referring to Simpson with an unprintable epithet. Shapiro takes a more measured, if Hollywoody, approach. But in both works, details of the lawyers' behind-the-scenes machinations remain strangely compelling. Darden describes a jaunt to the Bahamas, where he unsuccessfully pursued a tip that Simpson was planning to flee there the day of the Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals...
...occasionally got a little annoyed at him," McIntosh says. "I think he played a trumpet once in a while. He also had a habit of rocking back and forth in his Harvard chair, and he would bump against the wall and hard on the floor. I even think House Master [John H.] Finley, Jr. [who lived directly below Kaczynski] even got on him about it once...
...sports have superstitions that different teams within it share. Rally caps--hats turned backwards or inside out--are common in baseball, and hockey players often put salt and pepper on their sticks. Many track runners don't wear socks in their spikes. And a somewhat more disgusting pan-sport habit is neglecting to wash, whether it be shirts, socks or equipment...
...seem to think a monstrous effect must arise from a monstrous cause. But not much evidence turned up to make the eruption plausible. An isolated, unwholesome smudge of a life: Thomas Hamilton, unmarried, 43, a thwarted scoutmaster with an obsessive interest in guns and a habit of photographing very young boys naked from the waist up. It seemed a familiar but dislocated story, the kind usually set in dreary rooming houses across the Atlantic--narratives pieced together after the grisly, ground-breaking crimes that are an American genre...
...testified to God's grace in the lives of Germans who had turned to the church: an alcoholic who kicked his habit, a prostitute and drug addict who reformed her ways and was baptized six weeks later, a 60-year-old woman who had taught the official atheism of East Germany but has now converted to the Christian faith...