Word: limo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real drama starts. Ligier's attorney calls De Niro's people and offers to drop the charges in return for, say, $300,000. De Niro and his lawyers decide to play along. The attorneys negotiate the price down to $150,000, and the cash payoff takes place in a limo--with cops listening in. Bingo! Ligier spends the next six hours in custody. De Niro calls it extortion; Ligier says that's a lot of raging bull. The D.A. is letting a grand jury make the call...
...fashion--was the underlying portrait it painted of a particular time and place. Here was precisely the kind of teeming social canvas that the likes of Dickens, Thackeray, Balzac, Eliot and Flaubert used to such great effect. We met earthy Salvadoran maids, beadle-like cops, bumbling civil servants, stalwart limo drivers, beaten-down screenwriters manquas and, of course, comically obsequious houseguests. Occupying the top of the social pecking order in this modern-day Middlemarch was the defendant himself, living a life that would be the envy of any 19th century man of leisure: pleasant days at the country club filled...
...FRAME The prosecution asserts that the killings occurred at around 10:15 p.m., when neighbors say they heard the cries of Nicole's dog. That would give Simpson enough time--about an hour--to get from his house to Nicole's, commit the murders and return home for the limo that would take him to the airport. The defense presented witnesses--some less credible than others--who said that at 10:15 all was well around Nicole's house. Clark ridiculed the idea that so many witnesses could have been in the same vicinity at the same time without being...
...prosecution is on stronger ground with its testimony from Allan Park, the limo driver who went to Simpson's residence to drive him to the airport. He reported that no one answered when he rang at 10:42 p.m., a time verified by a phone call he then made to his boss. During the call, he says, he saw a black person about six feet tall enter the house--after which O.J. answered the intercom to say he had been sleeping. That contradicts the defense contention that O.J. had been hitting golf balls in his yard around that time...
...Georgetown law student, was denied the Maryland crown (though she had won the early competitions) after a wrangle over her eligibility. Last week, still hoping to be onstage in Atlantic City, she sued the state and national pageants. Dershowitz, who took time out from jogging beside the O.J. limo to advise Yueh, waxes apoplectic at the injustice: "The Miss America contest should not turn into the World Wrestling Federation. We don't want Miss America to become the Quiz Show of the 1990s." A New Jersey judge ruled that Yueh could not take part in the pageant but might still...