Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead Dunne chose to spiral around the Blue Tyler myth in great, windy loops of speculation, reminiscence, industry gossip and dear-reader throat clearing, delivered by a self-absorbed and only fitfully interesting narrator named Jack Broderick. He's a middle-aged screenwriter whose wife has just died, so he's at loose ends. There is almost no action or dialogue in present time. What the author offers is Broderick, onstage alone, scratching his head and relating what he has learned from a phone call or an old police report. Blue had a husband named Teddy who got stoned...
...real issue isn't a double standard; it's the censorious clout of the rating system. Jack Valenti, the MPAA boss who invented the system, insists it is "purely voluntary" and meant only as a guide to parents. If that were so, he would allow separate versions of a film (R and NC-17) to play in different theaters. Then smart, serious moviemakers like Stone, Smith and Megahey would be able to write and direct pictures to their own standards, and not a 16- year...
...there is an unquantifiable loss. The pastoral joys of baseball, joys that no other sport can match, have dissipated. That final prestrike game at Oakland Coliseum last Thursday night can serve as a parable. A balmy summer night, small children with oversize mitts dreaming of foul balls, peanuts, Cracker Jack and the familiar Take Me Out to the Ball Game played during the seventh-inning stretch. But then it came time for the refrain "It's one! two! three strikes, you're out!" A chorus of boos rose from the stands...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Janice C. Simpson (Deputy), Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling, Paul A. Witteman National Correspondents: Margot Hornblower, Richard Hornik, Jon D. Hull, Jack E. White Diplomatic Correspondent: J.F.O. McAllister...
...McNally is by far the more colorful -- and controversial. Before retiring from the New York police department in 1971, he collected 22 commendations and attained top standing as a first-grade detective, despite several internal investigations into his conduct. He is credited with collaring notorious jewel thief Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy in 1964. Since going private, McNally has provided his services to the defense of Patty Hearst, Bernhard Goetz and John Gotti. Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, who is also part of the Simpson team, has tapped McNally's services regularly, as have other top attorneys...