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...that they solve an old problem: how to avoid serious harm while capturing suspects who are a danger more to themselves than to others. The Houston officers who serve commitment warrants on the mentally disturbed use Tasers regularly and gratefully; injuries are down. The XR-5000, says Police Chief Conrad Teller of Southampton, N.Y., "sets them on their fanny nice and quiet. So far as we can see, it's the most humane way to do it." There are police complaints, however. The devices do not always work. Large and aggressive suspects sometimes keep on coming despite being zapped. Lieut...
...MUCH AS it is a story of greed and political perversion, Citizen Hughes is also the story of an American-style Mr. Kurtz, of whom Joseph Conrad said, "Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their...
...Librettist Tage Danielsson is no Brecht, and Werle shares with Weill only three letters of their surnames. In an opera as dependent as this on sure- handed pastiche, Werle's parodies of American lounge acts and soulful Russian folk songs consistently fall flat. Surely, the company that premiered Conrad Susa's magical chamber opera Transformations in 1973 and has championed resident Composer Dominick Argento could have chosen a better piece for this occasion. Perhaps Argento's Casanova's Homecoming, scheduled for April, will prove to be such a work. A performing space like the Ordway deserves...
...favorite author?" Bok asks. "I really don't have a favorite author. I try to read a lot of things. For six or seven years, I would read a book club selection every month. But I appreciate Joseph Conrad's more obscure works...
DIED. Edward Crankshaw, 75, British scholar who turned out 16 graceful, lively, popular histories and biographies on such subjects as Nikita Khrushchev, Austria's Habsburgs, Germany's Bismarck and Authors Leo Tolstoy and Joseph Conrad; of cancer; in Hawkhurst, England...