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...parents who didn't much like each other--for whom Bill Cosby's intact, warm TV household was a crucial refuge. Now it's gone. And no matter how the current story evolves, those reruns will be difficult to watch, those comforting memories tainted if not spoiled. When Ricky Nelson, America's TV son, died in a mysterious plane crash, rumors swirled that the child actor turned rock star had set the craft ablaze free-basing cocaine. Today's telecitizens like to view tragedies involving high-profile victims as either retributions for evil or sacrifices of perfect innocence...
...being his tax accountant; and with Libby, nine years younger, who lives a few blocks away raising her two kids; with Bill Sr. and his new wife Mimi, the director of the Seattle Art Museum; and hugging his wife Melinda while listening to Willie Nelson play at their New Year's Day 1994 wedding in Hawaii...
...Courtney Carlson have given more powerful testimony of what parents and kids face than statistics or analysis can. And, above all, their stories show how things can work out O.K. when there is the proper mix of a clear sense of right and wrong, authority, love and discipline. RONALD NELSON Hettinger, North Dakota...
When the defense rested its case, "all the court watchers came and congratulated me," says Nelson Bickley, one of Kay's original lawyers. "The world--or what little world was there--felt she was going to walk." Even Riffe says, "Frankly, if they'd found her innocent, I wouldn't have been too upset." So the jury's verdict, guilty of first-degree murder, which carried a 15-year-to-life sentence, was a shock. Says Bickley, who in part blames himself for inadequate presentation of expert testimony: "I think the jury did not fully understand what the battered woman...
...Imagine the sweeping adjustment society will have to make if the baby boomers rock on for another century." DAVID NELSON BLAIR Easton, Pennsylvania...