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Finally, the end appeared to be in sight: the O.J. Simpson civil trial had been handed over to the jury. Then suddenly, some 14 hours into deliberations, a flurry of strange problems arose, delaying and threatening to derail the four-month-old trial...
...Early in the novel the two Cherokee heroes, the legendary gunfighter Ned Christie and his pal Zeke Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow...
...Early in the novel the two Cherokee heroes, the legendary gunfighter Ned Christie and his pal Zeke Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow...
...people rushed the stage and grabbed microphones to sing along, the staff of the Middle East couldn't restrain the youthful onslaught. An inexplicable intensity in Goldfinger's music triggered the young audience in a way it could not have done for any other age group. The uncontrollable sight was amazing. Goldfinger's greatest talent must have been their unbelievable method of manipulating the audience into a frenzy. Soon the crowd replaced the music as entertainment, but quickly turned as uninteresting as the band's songs...
...that her husband had gone into Duke of Windsor mode, pledging on four networks to win back the woman he loves. While she was airborne over the Atlantic, he was recounting to Larry King how he had got a huge lump in his throat earlier that evening at the sight of pompano on the menu--because he and Eileen had discovered it together on a vacation to Key West, Florida...