Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...angry at myself because this whole year, I had been to the State House a number of times for work and had never explored past the library and the Park Street T Station...
...there to begin with? The New York Times took the former attitude, dutifully reporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani's boats about the crack police work of the NYPD. Once crucial detail especially worked to Giuliani's advantage: John J. Royster, the man who confessed to a brutal beating in Central Park and a murder on Park Avenue, was caught because he was fingerprinted during an arrest three months ago--for turnstile-hopping. That kind of "quality-of-life" crime has been the target of the mayor's law-enforcements strategy; here, it seemed, was living proof that stopping the small crimes...
...certain vapid goodwill between people in public places. Just because there are so few places where people are forced to meet strangers--nearly everyone lives in a tract house and drives a car, or seems to--L.A.'s public spaces are voluntary, even happy ones: the beach, the amusement park, above all the mall. Or maybe it's just the climate--it's easier to be mellow under bright, clear, 80-degree skies than in the concrete swamp that is Manhattan in the summer...
Accordingly, "Eraser" features one or two memorable action sequences--the reptile house in the Central Park Zoo--but even those tend to the hackneyed (think exploding glass aquariums). The gimmick laser gun features advanced infrared sighting, but this, of course, is old hat to veterans of Arnold's "Predator" phase. Most shockingly, one of the stunts that helps identify the movie--Arnold's leaping out of an airplane and playing "follow that parachute"--features what looks like a very shoddy mixture of blue-screen work and frenzied, bumpy camera movement. Where welldone, innovative action sequences and stories marked earlier Arnold...
Those who haven't found time to eat grab a quick "lunch," and by 5 p.m., the entire show has moved four floors down in its 499 Park Ave. headquarters to the television studio...