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Although the most authentic New York touch about Cagney & Lacey is the latter's Bronx accent ("I swear I'll take ya outta the game"), the relationship between the leads is canny and convincing. The pair do a balancing act: Cagney is hard bitten on the outside, a soft touch underneath; Lacey, played with subtlety and warmth by Tyne Daly, is motherly in manner but rough with the "poipatraters." The original show was canceled last spring, but CBS decided to bring it back to life in part because of a deluge of protest mail from viewers who responded...
...pseudonym) lifts her scarred right arm and feels for a usable vein. No one seems to notice as she grips one end of a yellow plastic cord in her teeth and winds the other end tightly around her arm, readying it for the needle. It could be the South Bronx, East Los Angeles, Amsterdam or London-the traditional dumping grounds for Asia's deadly commodity, heroin. But this is mid-afternoon in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, where heroin has long been perceived as an illegal export sold only abroad to residents of the U.S. and other weak-willed Western...
...rhetoric of the 1960s, have intractable or at best only marginally susceptible to solution. Housing initiatives--from public housing to urban renewal to "model cities" to "section 8" to housing allowances--have not significantly reversed urban decline, much less brought residents back to devastated areas like the South Bronx. New concepts of urban design, many pioneered at Harvard and MIT, have produced some better buildings but have not transformed the urban environment. Poverty programs, whether those from War on Poverty days, or more recent efforts such as the supported work program, have not reversed a growing pattern of dependency...
...Harvard. I admire those who are willing to sacrifice the basic middle class conveniences to help their fellow citizens. But I also know that I will probably never have the guts to give up the family car so that an unwed mother with five kids in the South Bronx can eat better, and I don't expect my colleagues to do so either...
...also got a chance to do some reminiscing. As a Congressman from South Bend, Brademas represented McLaughlin when the coach was sharpening his coaching skills at Notre Dame. And Muzio recruited McLaughlin when the coach--a Fordham University grad--was sharpening his playing skills at Fordham Prep in the Bronx...