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...years," Steven Bochco told an interviewer recently, "I've made a living swimming upstream." But for the past three or four of them, TV's brash experimenter has been thrashing mostly in dry creek beds. The creator of Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law tried a musical police show (Cop Rock), an "adult" cartoon (Capitol Critters) and a sexy law show (Civil Wars). Now, with his new ABC series, NYPD Blue, Bochco is back where he is most comfortable: chronicling the dark, turbulent world of big-city law enforcement. And fighting a raging current...
...then Friday brought yet more troubling news, when police announced that they had identified the body of James Jordan, father of superjock Michael Jordan, shot to death and floating in a creek in South Carolina. That was the kind of crime people will be talking about for a long time...
TITLE: SHOWDOWN AT OPAL CREEK...
...friends and business partners, now passionate adversaries, wrangle publicly over whether the town is worth the last old trees. Tom Hirons, tough, honest and worn down, runs a small logging company that is starved for work. George Atiyeh is a cocky, down-home environmentalist. His obsession is protecting Opal Creek, a 6,800-acre stand of superb old growth in the western Cascade Mountains. Seideman, a TIME reporter, follows his two feuding guides, and the reader, tagging along, learns, among other things, why loggers tend to hit the bars after a week's work. Though the author is an environmentalist...
...look at boyhood during the Depression. MUSIC Clint Black sings radio-ready country pop that has a splash of introspection. From Britain's Gavin Bryars comes a minimalist milestone. THEATER That spunky orphan is back, but in Annie Warbucks, her appeal is much scaled down. BOOKS Showdown at Opal Creek is a clear, sensitive account of the timber wars in Oregon and the fate of the last old- growth stands...