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...happens, two weeks ago the Justice Department funded a $2.15 million answer. Under the supervision of the National Institute of Justice, the department's R. and D. branch, three laboratories will develop prototypes for concealed-weapons detectors. Within 18 months, predicts NIJ technology chief David Boyd, they should have produced a device that can identify and describe a gun concealed on someone's person at a distance of 12 ft. without a frisk. Subsequently, he thinks, the range will increase...
...band achieves a different sound from most pop-rock bands by blending Matthews's acoustic guitar with two instruments not usually found in today's scene: a violin and a saxo phone. These two are not used sparingly either; most of the band's jamming came from Boyd Tinsley's blistering solos, in songs like "Ants Marching" and "Tripping Billies" and Moore's flute solo in "Typical Situation" got the most applause of the night. Their performances showed that even though the band is named for him, Matthews does not hog the spotlight and lets his talented bandmates shine...
BRITISH NOVELIST WILLIAM BOYD will never be accused of taking the safe route. His new novel, The Blue Afternoon (Knopf; 373 pages; $23), is for the most part a superior piece of fiction with unusual, mostly immoral characters, plenty of suspense and a truly ghoulish surprise. Unfortunately, that story, set in Manila in 1902, doesn't begin until page...
...Lisbon, where he promises to substantiate his story. That story is what follows. Why introduce it in such a distracting way? Maybe the author indulged in a little showboating. He is an expert mimic of the Hollywood hardboiled school, typified by Raymond Chandler. Good nostalgic fun, but Boyd shares Chandler's awkwardness in writing from a woman's point of view, so Fischer's observations fall a bit flat...
...suspects that Boyd complicates the plot for the pleasure of disentangling it in lean, lively prose. He also offers fascinating insights into pre-modern medicine and the mad dreams of the earliest aviators-presented not as set pieces but woven into the narrative. In all, typical Boyd-satisfying and baffling at once...