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...ironic part of it all is that the Office for the Arts, which granted the sugar-coated artistes money for their magnum opus, is headed by Myra Mayman, the master of Cabot House. One would think that as master of a Quad House, she would have been perhaps a little more sensitive to Quad residents who understandably are peeved by the now regrettable condition of the Quad. Such "art" has made the Quad into one giant sno-cone practically useless to those who do not desire to be sticky and cherry flavored...
...shattered as a man burst into the courtroom firing shots into the air and brandishing a hand grenade. Judge, jury, lawyers and a roomful of spectators dove for cover under tables and desks. The intruder, later identified as Abdelkarim Khalki, 33, quickly stripped five court officers of their .357 Magnum pistols and turned them over to two of the defendants. The 34 people in the courtroom had become prisoners, and the scene seemed to be set for another sickening hostage tragedy...
...gone on location to spice their tales with big-city ambience. Chicago is the locale for ABC's Lady Blue, a hard-edged cop show about a female homicide detective who shoots first and asks questions later, a sort of Dirty Harriet. Red-haired Jamie Rose wields her .357 magnum like a pro, and Danny Aiello is fine as her exasperated boss. The series is scheduled to be replaced in November by Dynasty II: The Colbys, a spin-off of the hit soap. But if it maintains the quality of its exciting two-hour pilot, Lady Blue deserves assignment...
...commonplace on TV, in westerns like Gunsmoke and The Rifleman, and in an earlier generation of police shows, from Kojak to The Streets of San Francisco. In recent years, however, these hard-nosed cops have been replaced by a new band of lighthearted crime fighters, from Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I., to Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote. Even the few "serious" police shows on TV, notably Hill Street Blues and Cagney & Lacey, are less about black hats vs. white hats than about ordinary folks coping with the stress of extraordinary jobs...
...grown. Films like Missing in Action and Uncommon Valor, both of them about missions to rescue American POWs in Viet Nam, drew big audiences. On TV, Viet Nam veterans, once portrayed as troubled loners, are now the sympathetic crime fighters of such hit shows as The A-Team and Magnum, P.I. First Blood scored unusually high ratings in a telecast on NBC last month, and orders for video cassettes of the film have jumped 25% since the release of Rambo...