Word: brentwood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shot, two gravestones, a smile. The trial can be reduced to these emblems. Or to entries in a specialized gazetteer: Rockingham, Bundy, Brentwood. A bestiary: barking dog, white Bronco, blond Kato. Names on a list: Marcia and Johnnie, Darden and Shapiro, Fung, Lee, Scheck, Ito, Fuhrman. A weird alphabet: DNA, O.J., A.C., L.A.P.D., the N word. All are signposts to a greater geography, one uneasily contained on the premises of the California Superior Court. Television viewers saw the proceedings and were captured by the legal dramatics; and yet there were always hints of unseen details and untold tales...
Once it was over, regardless of our opinions, we needed closure. The television stations helped, with their broadcast of O.J.'s victory lap back to Brentwood in the white van--eerily reminiscent of the Bronco that began...
...Shapiro's contract entitles him to $100,000 a month for 12 months; Johnnie Cochran Jr. is working for a large flat fee. Simpson, whose net worth was reported to be $10 million on the day of his arrest, has taken out a $3 million credit line on his Brentwood home, and according to one of his lawyers will have spent $5 million to $6 million by the end of the trial...
...telling fact that parents in Brentwood, California, can contribute $78,000 to the school's booster club for added staff, while the pta in the same school can raise only $5,000 because it is forced to turn over 20% of its profit to disadvantaged children in other areas of Los Angeles. The pta president noted that some parents objected to turning over funds to poorer schools downtown. Obviously, these parents couldn't care less about helping provide glasses for needy youngsters who can't see the print in a textbook and medical care for still others...
...Brentwood's Kenter Canyon is a case in point. In contrast to contributing the $78,000 last year to the booster club for additional staff, parents gave only $5,000 to the PTA, which can't subsidize salaries and must turn over 20% of its revenues to a citywide fund for disadvantaged students. "Some parents become very hostile about how hard we work, and then have to turn over a chunk of it downtown," says PTA president Krieger...