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That question-and-answer sequence is remarkable, partly because it is not especially bizarre or lurid. At least not by the standards of the Southern California trial it comes from. Other testimony last week moved some jurors to tears, as Lyle Menendez described how, when he was seven years old, he had been forced to perform oral sex on his father and later had been sodomized with a toothbrush. Lyle, now 24, and his brother Erik, 21, are seeking to explain why they burst into the television room of the family's $5 million Beverly Hills mansion on the night...
...chief of a music- and video-distribution business, and Kitty, 44, a onetime beauty queen, were gunned down, the first suspicion was of a Mafia hit. But the mangled condition of the bodies argued for a motive of hatred rather than business. Though they pretended to discover the bodies, Lyle, then 21, and Erik, 18, did not put on a very convincing show of grief; they went on a $700,000 spending spree with the insurance money. In March 1990, Judalon Smyth told police that after being asked to sit outside the office of her then lover, psychologist Jerome Oziel...
...California courts argued over the admissibility of the tapes as evidence. In July a final ruling enabled the prosecution to use the tapes and cleared the way for a trial. Only then did the Menendezes admit to the killings and begin spinning their story of abuse and terror: Lyle first, for nine days ending last Friday; Erik testifies this week. At the request of defense lawyer Leslie Abramson, who did not want to parade the same witnesses to tell the same stories in two successive trials, the brothers are being tried simultaneously before two separate juries. The juries listen...
...perform knows, Isaak is the genuine article: a pompadoured anachronism who grew up in the blue-collar cow town of Stockton, California, listening to Dean Martin, Louis Prima and Hank Williams Senior. By putting a cutting-edge gloss on a vintage 1950s and early '60s sound, Isaak, like Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang, avoids parody by dint of sheer talent and a playful sense of irony...
...Lyle Ashton Harris's multi-media installation, "The Secret Life of a Snow Queen, blueprint race and sexuality. As a Black gay man, Harris attempts to understand sexuality within the matrix of race and homoerotic relations between men. He attempts to inscribe his own sexuality upon the lines of racial difference...