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In a pinch, whole cities can be demonized. Last spring Joseph Bales and Helene Lemay, a French-Canadian couple, found their 10-week-old daughter Muguet dead in her crib. Convinced that they might be accused of killing her, they disposed of the child's body in a wooded area...
There are difficult emotions here. On the sweeping, sorrowful song Let Her Cry, Rucker sings about a relationship on the rocks, ruined by drugs and alcohol. On the mournful Not Even the Trees, grief hangs from his vocals like a shroud as he tells of going home after his mother...
ER breaks all these taboos and more. The absorbing two-hour premiere takes place in one 24-hour period in a big-city emergency room (Chicago again), and it's probably the most realistic fictional treatment of the medical profession TV has ever presented. The pace is furious, the narrative...
In Shelter (Houghton Mifflin; 279 pages; $21.95), Phillips continues to ladle on the prose: "In the splintering pour of the storm there is such a silence, like a church or a cell, a cloister, empty, and rain courses down the broken glass of the block-paned windows. Some of the...
The 7,000 uniformed soldiers and thousands of plainclothes thugs who serve as the Haitian military's henchmen are only too pleased by the publicity surrounding this jerry-can stampede. The attention provides an effective smoke screen for those who are really keeping the military alive: the larger vessels that...