Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plaintiffs gave it their best shot. For nine hours and two minutes, their lawyers tried to shake the defendant, to provoke an outburst, to spark a defining moment that would convince a majority of the 12 jurors that O.J. Simpson was guilty of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. But the former football star never lost his cool. Asked by plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli, who did the bulk of the interrogating, if he had an explanation for how the blood of his ex-wife and Goldman might have ended up in his Bronco, Simpson...
Whether one believes that Simpson was telling the truth depends, like so much else in this bog of a case, on perspective. What is incontrovertible, however, is that he remained unwavering as he wove a net of denials and declarations of innocence. O.J. will get another chance to speak in his own defense; his attorneys in the wrongful-death suit brought by the victims' families will recall him to the stand to answer friendlier questions when they present their case. But as in the criminal trial, it may be hard to recognize a defining moment when it actually occurs. Detective...
...majority in the Senate by two seats to 55-45 in the November election, Republicans are still five votes short of stopping Democratic filibusters. At the same time, Lott will have to appease his own constituency, which has grown increasingly conservative, especially with the retirements of moderates like Alan Simpson and Nancy Kassebaum...
...some measures, though, he already has one. Blessed with an uncanny resemblance to Brian ("Kato") Kaelin, Smith has won a recurring role as the Simpson houseguest on the O.J. Civil Trial, a nightly one-hour news program on the E! channel (airing weekdays at 8 p.m. EST), which not only provides analysis of the testimony in the Simpson wrongful-death lawsuit but actually has actors recreate verbatim chunks of the day's proceedings as well...
...idea for the O.J. Civil Trial came about when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki barred cameras from his courtroom during the current Simpson case. E! had watched its ratings skyrocket during the network's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the criminal trial, and executives reasoned that the daily dramatizations would be the best way to give viewers their O.J. fix. "The re-enactments take people inside the courtroom," defends John Rieber, E!'s programming vice president, "and that's where they want to be." Indeed, the O.J. Civil Trial has doubled E!'s audience for the 8 p.m. time slot...