Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Kelly (David Caruso), a red-haired department veteran going through a painful divorce, and Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), his hotheaded, battle-fatigued partner. Some of Bochco's devices have become too facile and familiar (the shaky, hand-held camera; a major character who takes six slugs at point-blank range and survives miraculously the following week). But his storytelling skills have never been sharper, and his favorite theme -- the clash between institutions and people, between the law and justice -- has never been dramatized at a higher, more compelling pitch...
Outside the official investigation, a different story began to circulate. News organizations quoted two witnesses as saying policemen held Grams down after he was captured and shot him to death at point-blank range. Said Joanna Baron, a sales-clerk at a station food stand: "Two policemen walked up to Grams, who was lying motionless. One bent over and shot him several times from close up. Then the second officer shot at Grams, but more at his stomach and legs. He shot several times." The subsequent medical examination supported eyewitness accounts: it showed that the shot that caused the fatal...
...young people, parents order their children away from the set and then brace themselves for whines and grumbling. Oddly, the exiles disappear without complaint and go off to their rooms . . . to read books. Sis, 13, picks up her copy of R.L. Stine's The Babysitter III: "His expression was blank, as blank as death. And with a quick, simple motion, he grabbed the baby's head with one hand, twisted it, and pulled it off." Across the hall, Junior, 11, turns the pages of Christopher Pike's Monster: "Mary pointed her shotgun at Kathy's face and pulled the trigger...
...International Bible Society, for example, has published Path to Victory ($2.25), a New Testament that includes profiles of such sports stars as Michael Chang, Orel Hershiser and Evelyn Ashford discussing their favorite scriptural sayings. Blank pages in the back are for autographs. Readers used to USA Today will get into the spirit of Thomas Nelson Publishers The Word in Life Study Bible ($19.99), which is highlighted with sidebars, graphs and charts on topics such as "Does God Work on Sundays?" For those for whom seeing is believing, there is The Bible Alive (HarperCollins; $25), which is illustrated by 250 photo...
...gays in the military. Then there was the shuffling of George Stephanopoulos--the young, liberal visionary of the Clinton team--away from the position of communications director. Stephanopoulos was replaced by David Gergen, a far more moderate Reagan-era spokesperson who makes a profession of becoming a blank slate every...