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...Sunday school may have taught them the words of the Gospels, but for millions of children, Hollywood provided the pictures. They were pretty pictures: stained glass in motion, from the First Church of De Mille. Handsome men - their beards neatly curled and trimmed, their robes immaculate - trod on tiptoe through a Judea as verdant and manicured as Forest Lawn. They may have represented Israelites of two millenniums past, but they often looked Nordic; God must have had blue eyes. And they spoke the King's English: King James', with an assist from any screenwriter willing to gussy up his fustian...
...motion said that Pring-Wilson sustained “repeated persistent blows to the front and back of his head. At one point [during the altercation], Pring-Wilson briefly lost consciousness and fell to his knees...
...psychiatrist examined Pring-Wilson several days after the incident and determined he was likely suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the motion said...
...direct result of his assailant’s actions, Pring-Wilson suffered a conclusive brain injury that has lasted for months and may still persist today albeit with diminished manifestations,” the motion said of Dr. William Stratford’s report...
...defense also filed a motion on Monday requesting to move the trial, scheduled for April 15, to Pittsfield, Mass., claiming that the publicity the case has attracted in Cambridge would deny Pring-Wilson the right to an unbiased jury...