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Acquitted? For the majority of white Americans who think Simpson did it, a cynical reading of that verdict--and cynical readings would be common--would mean that a millionaire jock who beats his wife, then butchers her and another man, can still walk, provided he buys the best lawyers around and they play the race card. For that majority, an acquittal would be the mirror image of the outcome in the first Rodney King beating trial, in which a mostly white jury acquitted four white police officers of what looked to most people like a blatant act of brutality...
...home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change each year, but the formula doesn't. The producers assemble distinctive and contrasting personalities -- the current season, set in London, pits Neil, a bookish, anti-American Brit, against Mike, a McDonald's-loving Missouri jock -- and then wait for the inevitable clashes...
...fists and joking about punching "the wife" in exercise videotapes the ex-football star made just weeks beforethe murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.The viewing appeared to cast doubt on the testimony of Simpson's physician, who yesterday characterized Simpson as a limping, broken-down ex-jock...
Undergraduate Council:1. Student council for college kids (see Gov Jock). 2. Organization that would go bankrupt from consistently sponsoring rock concerts that bomb if it weren't for the $20 "contribution" you pay them in your term bill. 3. Place where scandals happen. 4. People who think they have power when they really...
...because years of intensive training cannot be fully expunged from the dancers, partly because details of personality are lost as the action is streamlined, the conflict becomes more abstract. Officer Krupke is a police whistle. The dancers' gestures should be forceful and realistic, but some of the performers, including Jock Soto as the Shark leader, are too stylized. Occasionally what should be a fight becomes a rite...