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...Doyle Arthur Cannon. In May, after getting word that his wife was leaving him for another man, Cannon fled in a dump truck from the minimum-security Oconee Law Enforcement Center near Salem, where he had been serving a 37-year sentence for killing a man in a knife fight. Since then, his narrow escapes from helicopters and police bloodhounds have become the stuff of folklore...
...young, gifted and black in America today is to live poised on a cruelly honed knife-edge. There are doubtless more opportunities than ever for bright, ambitious kids to escape the ghetto. But the chances of being wasted by random violence have also increased. In his remarkable debut film, BOYZ N THE HOOD (as in neighborhood), writer-director John Singleton, 23, maps gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles with a cartographer's cool realism. But what gives powerful resonance to his film -- whose opening was accompanied by shootings in theaters across the U.S. that left at least one dead...
While the nutrition act does not apply to restaurants, where a growing number of Americans are eating many of their meals, some proprietors have jumped on the bandwagon with knife and fork in hand. Jeff Prince, senior director of the National Restaurant Association, says that labeling the menus at table-service restaurants probably will not work in most cases, but 80% of fast-food franchises have begun to provide nutrition information. "The recession has driven a lot of this," Prince explains. "When a significant portion of the population wants ingredient information, that number can make the difference between success...
...Thieves when he felt that the editing left something to be desired. "I went in ((to the editing room)) with the smallest pocketknife," he explains figuratively. "The Sheriff of Nottingham's death scene was so prolonged it was almost comedic. I don't think you need to see a knife twisting 16 times in a guy's gullet. If you've got to kill him, kill him quickly and move on with the story...
...that is, unendurable. One popular model from Code-Alarm, for example, puts out 125 decibels: "Louder than a police siren," says a publicist, "louder than a rock concert." A good car alarm is a sharp blade of sound: it pierces sleep, it goes into the skull like an oyster knife. In a neighborhood of apartment buildings, one such beast rouses sleepers by the hundreds, even thousands. They wake, roll over, moan, jam pillows on their ears and try to suppress the adrenaline...