Word: menendezes
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...saying something--and you'll have an idea what it's like talking to Dunne. The author of best-selling romans a clef about murder like The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and An Inconvenient Woman, Dunne became renowned for his coverage of the Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith and Menendez brothers trials. He sat in the Simpson courtroom from the first day to the last, and each month produced a savvy, pungent report for Vanity Fair. Appearing endlessly on TV, he became an O.J. celebrity himself. Now, trailing even Simpson's niece, Dunne has finally produced his own O.J. book...
...Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb: frequently a shopping mall...
...post-Menendez brothers era, it's hard to accept the criminal as a victim and truly sympathize with someone like Alan. It's also (perhaps intentionally) hard to commiserate with Dr. Dysart, who comes off as more of a middle-aged yuppie whiner than a genuine care-giver. Nevertheless, the doctor does succeed in exposing the complexities of what seemed to be an open-and-shut case of guilt. While most viewers probably still end up condemning the boy for his crime, the rush to judgment is not nearly as hasty or eager as at the beginning of the play...
...ROBERT MENENDEZ (D) District 13 (Parts of Jersey City and Newark...
...13th District is 41% Latino, and both major-party candidates are Hispanic. Menendez, in general a loyal Democrat, broke with Clinton in opposing NAFTA and the U.S.-led bailout of Mexico. But having won his two previous general elections by an impressive margin, he is considered the favorite in this race...