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Hollywood works in artificial extremes. The sticky old westerns or cop movies were based on the assumption that America was full of a spirit of egalitarian community and open land, and that only the aberrant would want to muck things up. The garish new breed of police thrillers tells us that the U.S. drives all its citizens crazy, our cities are virtual insane asylums, and the only objective standard and reforming force is the power...
Headline-Hunting. Such tones of respect for a kidnaper who was cruelly bargaining with the life of an innocent young woman were clearly the exception. Yet Cinque and his ilk were establishing themselves in the national consciousness as a new and distinct breed-a potentially dangerous achievement. "Cinque is getting away with his own delusions," says Ralph F. Salerno, top New York City investigator and expert on the Mafia. "If everyone said, 'You're a hood,' then he would appear for what...
Rather also spoke at length on White House treatment of the press. "Previous administrations have played all kinds of games with reporters," he said. "What's new about the Nixon administration is the well thought out, calculated campaign to get the country to believe that journalists are a breed apart...
...other." In this sense, the real danger lies in giving an impression that there is an imbalance in nuclear power in favor of the Russians that would breed insecurity. Adds the Hudson Institute's Brennan: "Either we persuade the Soviets to accept reasonable limitations on strategic forces or we are obliged to maintain our forces at a level that will prevent the Soviet Union from having superiority or believing that they have superiority...
...income, while many middle and upper class offenders are able to escape conviction and prosecution. As consistently high return rates show, prisons have been remarkably ineffective in deterring ex-convicts from returning to crimes. Prison experts claim that the violence and institutional brutality of prisons actually breed more crime...