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...advice: they weren't careful out there. Writers-Producers Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, Producer Gregory Hoblit and Director Robert Butler devised a "cop show" with no screaming car chases, no shining superheroes or disposable villains, no instant solutions to a ghetto full of predators and wary prey. Each episode tracks a day in the life of the policemen, the "blues," of an inner-city precinct. And at the end of each show, plot strands and predicaments are left hanging to be tied up next week or never. Hand-held cameras on dingily lighted sets catch life...
...neither Saki nor Langguth goes in for soul searching about the love that once dared not speak its name. Saki, in fact, never mentioned it. His sister merely refers to his habit of sharing digs with young men as "chumming." In the biographer's view, however, being a prey to lusts that could have landed him in jail helped make Munro an outsider. Early on the aunts taught him to hate people like themselves, who were unkind to animals and children, and to see lying and imagination as the only power the weak and clever have over the strong...
...could never forget the voice. In some ways he was the last bastion of defense for the innocent. Beautiful women, chivalrous old men--they all lived in a dream world far above the thugs and petty schemers who were anxious for the quick kill and wanted to prey on all those nice people in all those nice houses. The Continental Op lived with the thugs, but he aspired, ethically at least, to the Victorian mansions. He would keep the wolves from their doors--and then they could go back to their fantasies. Only the Op knew it was a fantasy...
...virus that afflicts the gypsies with fatal wilt disease, so called because the dying caterpillar shrivels into a kind of inverted-V shape. More diabolical are traps scented with sex lures to attract male moths. Scientists have also been distributing different types of insects-wasps, flies, beetles-that prey on gypsy moths at various stages in their life cycle...
More often, Shales stings his victims with wit. Investigative reporters who pounce on their prey in ambush interviews are practicing "bonzo journalism," said Shales. "Naturally one is reminded of the old story about the dog chasing cars -what do they do if they catch one? Wrestle him to the ground? Drag him off to the hoosegow?" Shales ridiculed Dan Rather's histrionic foray into Afghanistan last year for 60 Minutes, dubbing him "Gunga Dan," and noting that Rather's peasant garb "made him look like an extra out of Dr. Zhivago." Some viewers still cannot tune...