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...Judge Ito, weighed down by petty concerns, summoning lawyers to revel in his celebrity; Christopher Darden and Johnnie Cochran fuming privately over their public spats; the juror who talked about the flaws in the prosecution's case and the sacrifices she and her colleagues made during the nine-month ordeal; the police officers, including a duo nicknamed "Dumb and Dumber," who fell short in their jobs. Here are the tales that help illuminate the trial that transfixed a nation...
...SIMPSON JURORS HAVE BEEN given no counseling to help them through an ordeal that psychologists warn can induce unique and even dangerous forms of stress. Tracy Kennedy, a juror dismissed in March, attempted suicide two months later with an overdose of sedatives. Tracy Hampton, a flight attendant cut on May 1, struggled with depression so severe that she was hospitalized by the end of the month. After court adjourned on Wednesday, one juror could be seen at her hotel window with an exhausted look on her face, her forehead pressed against the glass pane. "I'm really worried about some...
Second year law student Richard Perez, who said he was leaning away from courtroom law before the Simpson trial, said watching the ordeal helped him make up his mind...
...render readers peevish. Ultimately, The Unconsoled suggests a considerable talent pursuing a questionable achievement. Ishiguro has created the literary equivalent of an endless bad dream: the fright engendered by impossible expectations, the frustration of feeling powerless to deflect an apparently inevitable slide toward shame and ruin. But Ryder's ordeal seems less malevolent than capricious. He is the benumbed victim of nothing more sinister than a patchy memory and a tight schedule. Why reproduce a free-floating nightmare when the real thing lurks each night for billions of people, unbidden and free of charge...
After the ordeal of this film you may feel that you want to grab the sweetest girl you know and hold her until it's all right again. Know that whatever happens, the fear, disgust and sadness that "Seven" evokes quickly start to dull, and that eventually they will disappear completely. I hope...