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...FLASH...
...first thing I heard was a big boom," he says. "I looked to my right. I saw a guy with a gun. The first thing I thought was 'Duck!'" Brown says more shots were fired in a matter of seconds. "It was like a running gunfight." He saw the flash of a gun, then saw Chestnut on the ground bleeding heavily. "Officer down!" someone shouted. Angela Dickerson, a 24-year-old tourist from Virginia, was wounded in the face and shoulder. One man threw his wife to the ground and lay on top of her. Families were separated...
...musical vapidity (New Age alert!). But not here. On his seventh disc as a leader, this adventurous 27-year-old jazz pianist justifies the title's paradox with playing that is full of odd stops and starts and tonal shifts, all of which he negotiates with delicacy rather than flash. This is music that manages to be both prickly and soothing--like anxious lullabies (to suggest another unappetizing title). Though Keezer gives himself three solo numbers--a highlight being his gentle deconstruction of Lush Life--the heart of the album is a series of tunes featuring Keezer...
...Murtaugh (Danny Glover) horsing around on Murtaugh's boat with their Leodmouth near-friend Leo Getz (Joe Pesci). Not 10 seconds after Riggs lobs Leo's pistol into the waves in jest, a massive freighter narrowly misses the puny fishing boat. Murtaugh and Riggs lose no time; a speedy flash of badge (very impressive from a distance, no doubt), leads the two cops, with minimal aid from Leo, to a shootout that eliminates the ship's crew and uncovers legions of illegal Chinese immigrants in the ship's hold...
...bold, black letters of tabloid headlines, offset by the stark white of the paper beneath, unrelentingly flash their news before the bustling traffic of the London subways. The story is the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a young black high school student killed five years ago at a bus stop allegedly by five white...