Word: knockoute
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...Knockout. It's a game in which the players try to punch somebody out with enough force to stun, rob and flee. And, according to prosecutors, it's the game that cost MIT student Yngve K. Raustein his life two Fridays...
...students at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School who are classmates with the three youths allegedly involved in the murder say they don't believe the prosecutor's accounts or the news stories. They--along with school officials and the city's police commissioner--do say knockout is a game, but one that Rindge students aren't playing...
...members of a police special-crimes unit, is in many ways the most preposterous new show of the season. In last week's premiere, the villain, a sadistic ex-con, was an unstoppable monster straight out of Friday the 13th, and the action scenes (including a bungee-jump knockout) made Road Runner cartoons look realistic. Still, creator Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team, Hunter) has a knack for vivid characters and punchy dialogue, and he invests the genre with the good-vs.-evil intensity of an old- fashioned western. Also, the hats are cool...
...ultimately, is doesn't matter. Gaps in logic are allowed in fairy tales and Tom Cruise movies. Irish accents don't need to be consistent. Injuries aren't permanent. Knockout punches to the eye and kidneys don't bruise, and they certainly don't scar. And people can die twice...
...racial dimension flows naturally into the political, where the uglier side of Quayle's mission begins to become apparent. One of Quayle's amazing but unlikable feats last week was metaphorically to transform old Willie Horton into a beautiful blond fortyish wasp has-it-all knockout. (Horton was the black murderer who raped a housewife while on furlough during the time that 1988 Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis was Governor of Massachusetts; the Bush campaign used Horton to ridicule Dukakis.) So in 1992, by Quayle's interesting subliminal design, Murphy carries at least some of Willie's message: mindless liberalism allied...