Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tell their story of trouble in Nirvana, Hubner and Gruson adopt the usual techniques of the true-crime genre. Hearsay information is accepted as more or less reliable, and eyewitness accounts are energetically dramatized. Some characters are protected by pseudonyms. Others are fictional or, as the journalists prefer, "composites." In addition, dialogue that could not have been recorded firsthand is approximated for maximum effect. Here, for example, is a murder scene in which the victim, repeatedly shot, stabbed and bludgeoned, is as hard to kill as Rasputin...
Allan A. Ryan Jr., the attorney representing Harvard in the case, immediately objected and called the reference "the baldest sort of hearsay." Ryan said he should have had the opportunity to cross-examine the scholar, Northwestern professor Philip Kotler...
...valuable the files will be in tracking down and prosecuting criminals is debatable. The U.S. Justice Department is currently using the records to build cases against at least five suspects now living in America. But doubts remain about the evidence; the archives contain unsubstantiated hearsay along with the sworn testimony of eyewitnesses. "We have to protect the innocent by making sure this stuff is authentic," warns David Wyman, a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts...
...Neal's Hearsay takes the viewpoint of the seducer or persuader, not the persuaded. Filled with slow jams, the album's concept is a party at O'Neal's house. Annoying between-song patter gives the aura of a small gathering and sets the scene for O'Neal to make his moves on his lady...
...Hearsay is good, almost classic stuff, but not too original. If the Minneapolis crew keeps making music like Alexander O'Neal's album, it certainly won't be a total waste of vinyl. But some inspiration for innovation will soon be needed if Flyte Tyme wants to keep flying so high...