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...program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A percussive left hand and a sometimes sotto voce right transformed this standby into a sleeker, more macho epyllion...
Before the Rodney King beating, when Los Angeles cops practiced their own style of macho in-your-face policing, crime did not decline. But when, as a result of widespread and bitter criticism in the King case, the L.A.P.D. retreated from such aggressive policing, crime did dip. Crime also dropped in cities practicing community policing, which I define as a partnership effort with neighborhood groups in solving such problems as noisy bars, crack houses and prostitution. As police chief for 15 years in San Jose, Calif., I saw this approach succeed many times where indiscriminate crackdowns had failed. San Jose...
...them. Minivans are practical vehicles that can haul other things besides runny-nosed kids, flea-bitten dogs and henpecked husbands. Sport-utes can't match them for practicality and cargo or passenger space, the price is right and, frankly, a minivan will never be mistaken for the extension of macho man that a Hummer or Range Rover surely is. PAULA WESSON Stowe...
...going to have this macho-cop competition thing...
...writer of the dark comedy A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, in which he is wrongly arrested and tries to get a restraining order on a woman who is out to kill him. His new film has all the moves of a '90s action comedy: the macho bonding and bantering, the glints of earthy wit overshadowed by gun waving and pratfalling--exactly what you'd expect from director Steve Oedekerk, the auteur of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls...