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...research to demonstrate persuasively whether tougher prisons lead to reduced crime. But for people fed up with lawbreaking, there is an undeniable psychological satisfaction in the thought of making hard time live up to its name. "Politicians are responding to the public, which is looking to impose mild forms of torture,'' says David Anderson, author of Crime & the Politics of Hysteria. In a new TIME/CNN poll, 67% of those questioned thought inmates were treated too leniently. Chain gangs were approved by 65%. And 51% thought convicts should be deprived of their TV sets and barbells...
...gravest crisis yet. Last season SNL was bombarded with fierce criticism not only from the public and the press but also from unhappy performers and network executives like NBC West Coast president Don Ohlmeyer, who deemed the cast members too distracted and the writing "weak." His complaints were mild compared with those of many longtime viewers, whose memories of last year's endlessly puerile sketches are still vivid...
...jokes by surfing the TV and newspaper reviews and get a hint of Silverstone's blithe luster by watching mtv's relentless promotions. Taking this Cliffs Notes route, moreover, saves you from sitting through several slow stretches of plot sludge. During these scenes, Clueless has the feel of some mild sitcom purring in a far corner of the living room. You don't watch it so much as notice it, from time to time, in a genial miasma...
...talkative, 88-year-old brown woman writer who lives and works -- and these days amiably inscribes books and serves tea to a procession of admiring visitors -- in the upper-middle-class African-American community of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard. Brown is her word, used carefully and with mild amusement, because among the Massachusetts resort island's summering black aristocracy, light has always been right, and shadings of color are measured with precision. When West was a child, as she relates in The Richer, the Poorer (Doubleday; 254 pages; $22), her new collection of stories and reminiscences, her extended...
...burning issue heated up on two fronts last week. After years of pushing toward regulating nicotine as an addictive drug -- and meeting resistance from Congress and the tobacco lobby -- the Food and Drug Administration passed the issue to the White House. The agency announced that it was urging relatively mild new regulations aimed at curbing smoking among youngsters. Among them: banning cigarette machines and stiffening penalties for vendors who sell tobacco to minors...