Word: lyle
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Given so broad a range of distortions, his life presents a towering challenge to any biographer. Lyle Leverich, whom Williams chose as his official biographer before his death in 1983, has done a commendable job of combining skepticism and sleuthing. With gentleness and insight, he corrects many of the claims Williams set forth in his lively but unreliable memoirs. (Williams was especially prone to minimize the floundering and guilt of his early sexual encounters.) Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams (Crown; 644 pages; $35) is the first installment of what will be a two-volume portrait. It tracks Williams from...
Society's sense of right and wrong has become so distorted that a 14-year-old South African runner tested postive twice for steroid use and was suspended from competition for four years. You can add to the South African case the names of Ben Johnson, Brian Bosworth, Lyle Alzado and Katrin Krabbe, and the picture only becomes more disturbing. The carelessness of risking one's long-term health for short-term gain and the cunning used to avoid detection are not behaviors to be emulated...
...defense contends, or greed--then the verdict will be first-degree murder, with a possible sentence of death. He will tell the jury the defendants used false identification to purchase shotguns two days before committing the murders, and that within 24 hours of the crime Erik and Lyle were carrying their murdered parents' safe to the home of a probate attorney, whom they asked to open it so they could see if their parents had changed their wills. Explains Conn: "I wanted the jury to be clear that whether they found that the defendants killed for their own financial independence...
...knows how long this trial will take. Even without a television audience to play to, the lawyers ran into overtime in their opening arguments. But Conn expects to wrap up the case by Christmas. Of course, even if freed, Lyle and Erik might not have much of a home to return to for the holidays...
...high-publicity murder trials opened, and without the glare of courtroom television coverage. In Los Angeles prosecutors began their retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez on charges of having murdered their parents; the prior prosecution of the brothers, who claim they were driven to kill by years of sexual abuse, ended in hung juries. In Houston, Yolanda Saldivar went on trial for the murder of Tejano singing star Selena. The former president of Selena's fan club, Saldivar claims the shooting was an accident...