Word: simpsons
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...Simpson verdict last week not only overshadowed Powell's barnstorming will-he-or-won't-he book tour but also distracted national attention from the President's veto of a congressional budget proposal, the Republican plan to cut Medicare and the strenuous antics of all the other real, imagined or longed-for candidates for the presidency, most of whom are not getting all that much attention anyway. But the question on the mind of politicos was not who planted a certain glove but whether the verdict will spur a white backlash that could affect the presidential campaign--and especially...
...energies to find ways to understand each other." Lamar Alexander tried to have it both ways: "I believe it is important that we support our system of trial by jury, even if we have great doubts about an individual result." Jesse Jackson made a curious suggestion, urging Simpson to turn his fame "to a positive use" by launching a drive against domestic violence...
News of the impending nuptials of Charles and Camilla pales next to the scandalous announcement in 1936 that England's King Edward VIII would abdicate to marry soon-to-be-divorced American WALLIS WARFIELD SIMPSON, TIME's 1936 Woman of the Year...
...resolved early to make men her career, and in 40 years reached the top--or almost. No man she careered is known to have ever said a word not in her praise. Apart from her first husband Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, U.S.N., and her second (present) husband Ernest Aldrich Simpson, a London shipbroker, probably her best friend, next to the Duke of Windsor, remains the Argentine Ambassador in Washington, Felipe Espil ... "My, my!" sighed Ambassador Espil to swank U.S. friends last summer, "who would ever have dreamed that our little Wallis would ever be where she is now!" --TIME...
...Steven Bochco's Murder One took a full season to tell a single story: the trial of a famous actor (Jason Gedrick) for the murder of a 15-year-old girl. The experiment was bracing, intense and a ratings failure. Maybe, in the autumn of O.J. Simpson's acquittal, it was hard to sell a celebrity murder story in which the high-priced defense team, headed by no-nonsense Ted Hoffman (Daniel Benzali), was more sympathetic than police and prosecutors. Maybe audiences weren't ready for a serial format. But One is made for the DVD era: watching...