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Kahn said the Harvard Police are working on computer displays that will locate high crime areas using dots on a map to represent incidents. The police reevaluate the deployment of officers every three months to compensate for shifting crime patterns, he added...
...grin: "I'm beginning to feel more like a Washington insider." He was briefed in Plains by CIA Chief George Bush, and met with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Asked what he planned to tell Carter, Kissinger quipped: "I have spent so much time finding Plains on a map, I haven't had much time to think about what I would...
...coincidences, none of the people here can make connection with one another. Some, like Karen Hood, have even given up trying. She spends her days attending matinees in empty movie theaters, or cruising around in taxis, keeping careful record of their numbers and tracing their routes on a map...
...THERE IS A FLAW in The Family Arsenal, it is that Theroux's map of London is too well marked. As in theater, nothing is what it appears to be. The apparent innocence of children becomes cruelty. Men are unmasked as women and women, men. Because Theroux insists on our acceptance of his nightmarish conventions from the beginning, nothing come as a real surprise. The connections, like the streets of the city, lead from one to the next...
...like the characters in a play, Theroux's people are most moving when they see most clearly that dead end which is merely a line on the map. For Lady Arrow, the revelation slips in for only a second when her idyllic picture of Hood's quaintly shabby neighborhood is shattered by the dusty characterlessness of the place. For Gawber, the perception of the true nature of modern decline is more annihilating than his imagined House-of-Usher-like holocausts could ever be. Catastrophe, Gawber realizes, is not "fancy's need for theater...