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Simpson remained in seclusion, visited by friends like Jermaine Jackson, ( Dionne Warwick and former U.S.C. football teammate Bob Chandler. He did attend Nicole's wake on Wednesday and funeral mass on Thursday at St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic Church; he was treated as a mourner, not a murderer. Friends who talked to Simpson last week said he was distraught. Said movie agent Jack Gilardi, who has represented the ex-footballer for 21 years: "He could hardly talk. He was in tears and everything...
Trillin candidly describes his own fumbling attempts to adjust: "I was remarkably easy to fool." Others, like Denny, never found their feet again. His jobs grew less significant, and influential friends dropped away. He never married. At a Big Chill session, one mourner suggests that the deceased had "unreasonably high standards." Another concludes that he was a suppressed homosexual. Still another observes that despite the scholar-athlete's "million-dollar smile," he was an emotional basket case, suffering from clinical depression...
...introductory galleries of this show, how Bellini supplied the prototypes for one side of early Titian, his suave construction of pictorial space and pragmatic realism. Then, equally fundamental, there is Giorgione, Titian's exact coeval, but dead "of exhaustion as much as the plague," as one literary mourner obscurely put it, in his early 30s. So little is known about Giorgione's life that the interplay of influence between the two young artists will probably never be fully sorted out. Our ignorance of it has given rise to innumerable wrangles over which paintings can be ascribed to early Titian...
...protest demonstrations of the '60s, particularly Martin Luther King Jr. At last week's memorial services, however, people from all walks of life showed their appreciation of how indelibly he has marked our society. Beneath a portrait of the Justice that was displayed alongside his casket, a mourner placed a copy of the Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case in which Marshall the lawyer successfully argued that the Constitution prohibits racial segregation in public schooling. At the bottom of the first page of the opinion, the anonymous admirer wrote, "You shall always...
Seiji has been one-upped in some family matters as well. One can imagine his frustration when, in 1964, the younger, illegitimate Yoshiaki broke tradition and presided over their father's funeral as chief mourner. Twenty years later, when the funeral of Yoshiaki's mother was held at Tokyo's Zojo-Ji temple, a blimp reportedly flew overhead publicizing a newly opened store belonging to Seiji's group...