Word: crime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life in Washington. She entered the race late because she saw an opening after Feinstein decided not to run, but wasn't up to speed on the issues and spent months offering little more than platitudes. She was for better schools (the hot topic this year), more jobs, less crime and "digital" leadership based on "horizontal" decision-making. Harman is sharper than that, but hasn't often proved it. At a women's political caucus in Concord last month, her appeal was so generic and gender-based--breast-cancer research, abortion rights, child care, and her signature wrap-up line...
...Crime won't be reduced by taking cash out of the mix. Stealing will just become more sophisticated. We are already dependent on the mighty god of technology and electricity in ways that make me uncomfortable. We are putting all our eggs in one electronic basket. The servant is becoming the master. DYLENE CYMRAES Jessup...
...EYES (Aug. 7). Since his Oscar turn in Leaving Las Vegas, all Nicolas Cage has done is star in three action films that each topped the $100 million mark and, for a romantic change of pace, made audiences believe in angels. So don't discount this Brian De Palma crime thriller...
WRONGFULLY ACCUSED (Aug. 7). Geezers can be goofs too. Leslie Nielsen reunites with Pat Proft (who also worked on Naked Gun), for a parody of 63 recent crime thrillers. Fine, but aren't those films their own insidious parodies? And didn't Fatal Instinct send up the genre back...
...underwater croquet tournaments, men being shaved by robots, battery-powered roller skates. Later, Hugo Gernsback, who started out as a manufacturer of automotive batteries, launched the magazine Amazing Stories ("Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow"). It was endlessly imitated. A typical series in Famous Fantastic Mysteries was titled Crimes of the Year 2000. The crimes were not especially novel, but some of the crime-fighting devices were, for the time: tiny recorders strapped to the wrist, heli-pursuit cars, bloodhound machines that identified a perpetrator's smell. The pulp view of the millennium was dominated by gadgetry. If there...