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...sickening glare from that grisly scene has thrown light upon police brutality all across the country. Was the beating an aberration, as Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates insists? Or did it affirm yet again that many cops resort to violence, and even deadly force, when no threat to their safety can justify it? Is racism so pervasive among police that the fight against crime all too often becomes a war on blacks? Has the criminal-justice system, which permits too many criminals to go free after serving only token sentences or none at all, become so ineffectual that officers...
JANUARY has been the Month of the Gulf. Intellectual debate, Congressional speeches, television news coverage and newspaper headlines have been dominated by images of missile launches, anti-aircraft fire, the steely glare of Saddam Hussein and the "New World Order" of George Bush...
...release of La Bamba, the disarming biography of Latino rocker Ritchie Valens, that launched them into the full glare of the big time. They performed superb renditions of Valens' classics for the film and had a No. 1 single with the title cut, as well as a sound-track album that spent two weeks at No. 1. "That kind of eclipsed everything else we had done up to that point," says Perez. But as Hidalgo recalls, "we didn't know if we were going to be an alternative novelty thing or just a flavor of the month...
...wake of the feminist movement, some men are beginning to pipe up. In the intimacy of locker rooms and the glare of large men's groups, they are spilling their bile at the incessant criticism, much of it justified, from women about their inadequacies as husbands, lovers, fathers. They are airing their frustration with the limited roles they face today, compared with the multiple options that women seem to have won. Above all, they are groping to redefine themselves on their own terms instead of on the performance standards set by their wives or bosses or family ghosts...
...against network packaging that has grown so boringly rote and predictable that all signs of life have drained out? If so, relief is at hand: increasingly offbeat shows are cropping up in out-of-the-way places on the dial. Some deserve their obscurity. Others might shrivel in the glare of too much mass-audience attention. But what they all share is an eccentric, homemade, try-anything quality...