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...first reports all said that the President had escaped harm. Nancy Reagan learned of the shooting minutes after she returned to the White House from a luncheon meeting. Her own Secret Service escorts told her that her husband was at the hospital, but they too were unaware that he had been wounded. She reached the hospital only minutes after his limousine...
...criminal violence and a sense that as the social contract tatters, the good guys must have their guns to defend themselves against the rising tribes of bad guys. It is very hard to persuade the good guys that all those guns in their hands wind up doing more lethal harm to their own kind than to the animals they fear; that good guys sometimes get drunk and shoot other good guys in a rage, or blow their own heads off (by design or accident) or hit their own children by mistake. Most murders are done on impulse, and handguns...
...useful and good-natured when new difficulties arise in the course of their odyssey together. And arise they do, with metronomic and lugubrious regularity, once a reel. If the pair get a few bucks ahead, someone is sure to rip them off, and probably do them some physical harm...
Like Hitchcock, writer Tesich sees potential harm in the most innocent quirks. The background of New York City embellishes that sense of menace. Deever's preoccupation with Tony Sokolow throws him headlong into the midst of an international plot involving the murdered man, (ominously named "Mr. Long") and a group of wealthy Zionists. Unlike the innocent obsessions in Breaking Away, Deever's are misconstrued, then used as bait against him. The pace of the city brings about an urgency and neurosis which transforms even the simplest of actions, like playing with a dog, with an air of danger. Peter Yate...
...serpent, which is said to measure anywhere from 10 ft. to 45 ft. and to have a horse-shaped head bearing two tiny horns. Over the centuries, Champ has managed to take care of himself quite well. Now two local governments are moving to ensure that no harm comes to the creature in his dotage. Last October the town trustees of Port Henry, N.Y., declared the adjacent waters of Lake Champlain "off limits to anyone who would in any way harm, harass or destroy" Champ, and Vermont legislators are thinking of designating the monster an endangered species...