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Hough apparently revels in Jesus Christ figures, and Gifford needs those 30 pages to accept the responsibility for the sins of some kids who cuss in front of their neighbors, a drunk who dies in a flophouse room, and Jimmy Johnson himself. The verdict is hardly definitive for Gifford, who anguishes, with the italicism that is appropriate to a Monday morning quarterback of the Crucifixion, "What if he's innocent?" Jimmy Johnson has become a Christ-figure too, and before Gifford can finish his narrative/life, he must accept the burden of fingered Jimmy, who, albeit begrudgingly, bore the sins...
...CHRIST-MONGERING, however, is not really fair to Hough, whose book is more about a patient guardian than a martyr. Gifford's assumption of responsibility for Kimberly Ann Regan, the victim, seems all too Christian, but it makes sense for a man whose equanimity has depended, since a decision 34 years earlier to limit his scope to a Cape Cod town, on the preservation of a profound order within that community. Gifford's dedication to the community is so abiding that he feels called upon to write its history upon his retirement. The obliteration of Kimberly Ann Regan within...
...relations with Bok's other vice presidents are, for the most part cordial, although Daly has, on occasion, strongly criticized Hall's actions. Hall shrugs off any conflicts he has had with Daly: "Oh, Chuck will pop off about me, but that's Chuck. That's Chuck Daly. Christ, you wouldn't want a marshmallow around here...
Bugliosi describes Fromme as "intelligent and articulate, except when it comes to Manson, who she believes is the Second Coming of Christ." Several years ago, she spoke frankly about her views in a film documentary titled Manson, which will soon be rereleased. At one point, Fromme says, "Every girl should have a daddy just like Charlie." She adds: "Whatever we need to do, we do. We respond. We respond with our knives. It feels good to be ready to face death and love...
...baby, go out and snuff [kill] yourself,' she would do it," says a current friend of the family. The girls, he says, believe Manson's arrest was part of a grand design. "He told them that he would go underground and then rise again some day, like Christ," reports the friend. "They think his imprisonment is just that−a forced period underground. They spend all their time preparing themselves for the day he is released−the day he rises...