Word: lisa
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...bitter coda to its videotaped, six-minute reenactment ofSusan Smith's car sinking with her two young boys inside, the prosecution rested its case in the sentencing phase today by showing stone-faced jurors photographs ofthe drowned children. Since the trial began, TIME's Lisa Towle notes, Judge William Howard has disallowed all photos of the boys, and today he prevented the prosecution from displaying full-body or face-on shots. But Towle says those permitted today were damaging enough, showing the toddlers' bodies strapped securely to the seats -- "their legs and feet and the teddy bears in the back...
...would convince all 12 jurors -- some of whom have expressed doubts -- that Smith deserves the death penalty. It may have. "Whereas Susan has been accused of playing to people emotionally -- of turning on and off her tears -- what came from David today was true, raw feeling," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "It was so poignant and such a hard act to follow that the defense did not even attempt to cross-examine him." Towle says Smith makes his most effective point -- that Susan, rather than their sons, has been inappropriately pegged as the victim -- in a persuasive passage near...
...Reported by Adam Cohen/New York, Elaine Lafferty/Los Angeles and Lisa H. Towle/Union
Whistler's Mother remains his most famous painting--up there in the peculiar grab bag of images that for one reason or another, usually unconnected with their quality as art, everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier, and better. Painted in 1862, it is a portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with...
...Reported by Lisa H. Towle/Union