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...that grannies used to write and read -- is mostly over and widely unmourned. Nor is it necessary these days for women who want to write about the darkest crimes -- P.D. James comes to mind -- to confect not-quite-believable male investigators. It's not a surprise that among the grittiest of this season's crime novels are three written by and about women...
...detective stories are escape fantasies. Clockers, one of the toughest and grittiest novels of the past few years, is no-exit reality. Richard Price, a film scriptwriter whose much praised first novel was The Wanderers, hung out with drug cops and drug dealers for two years, he says, listening to the talk and watching the action. A white, middle-class reader, from a neighborhood where people don't duck when they see a police car, has no business saying whether Price has got things right. But the book sounds right; it rings true. Cheap wine, the kind you drink...
Other, equally disturbing undercurrents exist in the play. Racism is a trifle too recurrent a theme here. Even the grittiest of theater-goers will begin cringing around the fiftieth mention of the word "nigger...
...offbeat matchup, Jane Amsterdam of upscale magazine fame is named editor of New York' s grittiest tabloid -- the Post...
...uniform returned home from combat in coffins. The week most of them died, President Reagan reminded the public that the U.S. had "global responsibilities." That notion, a bit textbookish to most citizens, is a good deal less abstract to the 2.1 million members of the American military. The grittiest responsibilities are theirs...