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...Wall Street Journal op-ed piece laying out the company's position, Time Warner co-CEO Gerald Levin makes two defenses. First, Ice-T's Cop Killer is misunderstood. "It doesn't incite or glorify violence . . . It's his fictionalized attempt to get inside a character's head . . . Cop Killer is no more a call for gunning down the police than Frankie and Johnny is a summons for jilted lovers to shoot one another." Instead of "finding ways to silence the messenger," we should be "heeding the anguished cry contained in his message...
Stephen King returns from the crypt with GERALD'S GAME (Viking; $23.50) his 27th novel. The game begins on an average day in an airy summer house in Maine. Jessie Burlingame agrees to let her husband Gerald try a little bedtime bondage, but somewhere along the line he gets nasty -- and so does she, dispensing a vicious kick that leads to a fatal heart attack. Here lies Gerald, and so does Jessie, cuffed to the bedstead as a mad dog scratches at the door. Meanwhile, her mind and memory play hideous tricks, as the ghosts of her sexually abused childhood...
...three-alarm fire interrupted last Sunday's services at the Congregational church on Garden street, causing an estimated $500,000 damage to the roof, ceiling and basement, according to Fire Department Captain Gerald R. Reardon...
...escalating player salaries, but the players seek to maintain the contract that has created scores of millionaire athletes over the past decade. As a result, the uneasy truce worked out after the 1990 owners' lockout is in danger of being discarded. "The golden days of baseball are over," says Gerald Scully, University of Texas economist and author of The Business of Major League Baseball. "The game is entering a new era of fiscal conservatism, and that could spell big trouble for labor-management relations. Unless cooler heads prevail, the 1993 baseball season could be in jeopardy...
...after looking outside the school for a dean unsuccessfully, Rudenstine then turned to three inside candidates. In March he tapped Rowe, a former director of Rice University's school of architecture, to replace Gerald M. McCue as dean of the Graduate School of Design...