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...from a dead woman; a scene where Mike slams a desk drawer shut on the fingers of a suspect; the slapping around of an Athletic Club guard; and the ultimate villain (who goes up in flames). But they changed the Mafia to an, I don't know, atomic-weapons gang. It's as if the Rosenbergs didn't give the Russians the plans for a bomb but the bomb itself. They also perverted the relationship of Hammer and his police buddy, Pat Chambers. Wesley Addy's Pat is so drawling and insinuating in his banter with Hammer, he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

...People are fed up with Cynthia McKinney," and "it crosses racial boundaries," said Jeff Dickerson, an African-American constituent of McKinney's and a panelist on the political TV talk show The Georgia Gang who predicted a tight runoff race. "I think that there's a quiet campaign among African-American voters" against her, he added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McKinney's Tight Race | 7/20/2006 | See Source »

...Evening Train,” “I Came to Believe”), with the narrator himself grappling with death. The rest are wakes (“Four Strong Winds,” “I’m Free from the Chain Gang Now”), urging others to do so themselves. Cash’s gruff elegance is there in all of them, but he plods through them at a tortoise’s pace—or, perhaps, a grandfather’s. For those who think of Cash as family, this is comforting...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Death, Johnny Fades to Black | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

...streets in a bathrobe with a crooked wooden staff recruiting men to join his group. The oath of allegiance to al-Qaeda they allegedly made to an FBI informant seems as likely as not to have been prompted by the informants' offer of new pairs of boots for the gang. Shoes were apparently in short supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toying With Terror Alerts? | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

...working my mouth and eyes, clearing my throat, feet independently pushing my just-awakened body into the glare of the corridor. I thought I'd probably heard wrong. A "token black" maybe-some gang member pushed off the platform? Or a marijuana smoker (as in Steve Miller's famous line, "I'm a midnight toker")? The jargon varies by hospital and, like all residents, I strove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Diagnosis Is Cynicism | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

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