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...also have to talk about women's role, African Americans' role. This was not just white Anglo-Saxons who fought in the Revolution; it was Americans of all races, colors and creeds. We're not putting down anybody. Instead of a spotlight on one group, we want a floodlight on many cultures...
...stepped into the street. A sergeant fired a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun at the unarmed black man, then three officers took turns kicking him and smashing him in the head, neck, kidneys and legs with their truncheons. A hovering helicopter bathed the scene in a floodlight as 11 other policemen looked on. When the beating was over, Rodney King, 25, an unemployed construction worker, had suffered 11 fractures in his skull, a crushed cheekbone, a broken ankle, internal injuries, a burn on his chest and some brain damage...
Later Cheever dealt with some of these proscribed items, but never in the tone of the journals. Here they appear in a harsh floodlight, personified by Cheever himself. The author's idiosyncrasies are no longer secret: in Home Before Dark, Susan's ambivalent 1984 memoir, her father is described as "the worst kind of alcoholic." Her brother Ben, who edited a volume of Cheever's letters, recalled that John was "bisexual all his life . . . He liked good- looking younger men." Still, these were posthumous comments, made by members of the family that Cheever alternately cherished and regarded as a self...
Battat suggested increasing the visibility of the blue lights and attach- ing a floodlight or a siren to the phones. Theemergency mechanisms would be set off when anyonepicks up the phone, said Battat. "If you're beingraped, that might be the extra 10 seconds youneed," he said...
...action toys still clutter the toy departments--Night Rescue Chutes Away, for instance, comes complete with a helicopter, a floodlight, and a half dozen survivors...