Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan has masterminded the summer's most talked-about musical event: Lilith Fair, a traveling show featuring a rotating lineup of 61 female singer-songwriters, including Cassandra Wilson, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple, Paula Cole, Jewel and McLachlan herself. There's a different melody in the air: macho is out; empathy is in. "People want to be given hope," says Atlantic Records senior vice president Ron Shapiro, "and these female artists are giving young people a life preserver...
...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...