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...that what the Simpson trial amounts to? A strange, garish X ray of American society, circa...
Courtroom as religious rite: Apollo--the law--sifts through the disorders of Dionysus--human nature in the wild, where Medea's children and Orestes' mother and Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman all are murdered. To re-establish order, the rational takes the irrational to court. Sometimes the result is itself irrational, but in the drama, you may see for a moment into the society's heart...
...defining trial of the 1990s. The Simpson case offhand seems an unbeatably lurid end-of-the-millennium American omnium-gatherum of race (the nation's oldest, most durable inflammation of the psyche), sex, celebrity, media hype, justice and injustice . A perfect demonstration of how the American tendency to moralize has gone into partnership with the American appetite for trash-the superego and the id so nicely morphed that they are indistinguishable...
Events have two kinds of meanings: 1) what really happened, the facts, and 2) what people believe happened, the immense tapestry of folklore and conviction and myth that surrounds an event like the Simpson-Goldman murders. Category No. 1 addresses the needs of justice and history. But category No. 2 is important and fascinating in its own way. In category No. 2, the Simpson trial became a vivid shadow play of race in America. The defense's evocations of race in the trial may have been only an inflaming diversion. But on the subject of race, America is tinder...
...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...