Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...IMPOSSIBLY TANGLED ISSUES of the O.J. Simpson trial could best be understood last week by paying attention to the tears. Prosecutor Marcia Clark finished her summation with the chilling sounds of Nicole Brown Simpson's pleading 911 calls to police. While a screen flashed pictures of Nicole's bruised face, followed by her and Ronald Goldman in death, the families of the victims wept. But what may make more of a difference to the verdict is what happened when defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. gave his summation a day earlier. When he reminded the mostly black jury of how often...
...proper mix of movies and marriage. "The rule was, we don't turn the television off, no matter what," she says of her marathon. "I found out that TV deadens you, and it's hypnotic. I would get involved in the talk shows, yelling back at the screen." And what about Tom Terrific? "That was his idea of a perfect weekend. Me in bed watching TV, and room service...
...expensive lawyers who could talk up a storm." --This report was compiled with Associated Press wire dispatches. Todd F. Braunstein and Justin Danilewitz also contributed to this report.Photo courtesy Associated PressFrankfurter Professor of Law ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, a member of O.J. Simpson's defense team, touches a television screen in his office at Harvard Law School immediately after his client was acquitted of dual murder. Dershowitz would have worked on Simpson's appeal if the jury had convicted the former football star...
...photographer Luca Babini (Hutton's boyfriend), the talk show looks like no other. It is filmed, not taped, and the camera sways back and forth, not only between Hutton and her guest, seated across from each other at a table dressed with a fruit bowl, but also to TV-screen images of them looking alternately fascinated and confused...
...self-worth. According to Martin Seligman, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist, how people respond to setbacks--optimistically or pessimistically--is a fairly accurate indicator of how well they will succeed in school, in sports and in certain kinds of work. To test his theory, Seligman devised a questionnaire to screen insurance salesmen at MetLife...