Word: handedly
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Ultimately, the decision to print excerpts of For the Record had less to do with personality than with history. "We thought a look at an Administration still in power by someone who had been the President's right-hand man for two years and a Cabinet officer for four years would be of extraordinary interest," says Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who edited the excerpts. "Most of the people mentioned are still on the political stage. That makes the book particularly sensitive." So sensitive that first-time readers, like Seaman over the Atlantic, can be excused an occasional outburst...
...semiautomatic hand-gun purchased for $40 in Dallas commands $150 on the street in New York City. With such profits at stake, it is no wonder that Texas, already a major corridor for narcotics from Central America, is turning into a principal source of guns for drug gangs around the U.S. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms figures that Texas trails only Florida as a black-market weapons supplier. Lax firearms laws require no waiting period or investigation of a buyer; gun smugglers send ordinary-looking shoppers, often women, from gun shop to gun shop, acquiring a weapon...
...Reagan's mind, an actor's superstitions coexist unabashedly alongside a deep, if unstructured, Christian faith. He is untroubled by the contradictions between the paranormal phenomena that intrigue him and strict church doctrine, which rejects such deviations as the tools of the devil. Nancy, on the other hand, "doesn't have a deep faith in God," according to a former East Wing official. "She was a perfect candidate for this...
...Miyamoto is essentially playing -- and, above all, his allusions to Crime and Punishment. As in the great novel, it is a tenacious detective's patience that forces the final confession a criminal requires for his soul's peace. But the entertaining dexterity with which Itami plays this potentially heavy hand is all his own, and strangely beguiling. He collects our interest, but charges no penalties...
...life crime solving. NBC's occasional Unsolved Mysteries specials, for instance, have presented similar crime re-enactments (and helped catch five suspects). But doubtless, what makes America's Most Wanted the highest-rated show on the Fox network's schedule is the tabloid sensationalism of its crime dramatizations. The hand- held camera, slow-motion scenes of violence, and point-of-view shots of the victim cowering or the murderer attacking might have been lifted straight from Friday the 13th. Equally unsettling is the juxtaposition of these lurid minidramas with the appearance of actual witnesses and victims (some of whom have...