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...Hill Street Blues. These have all but disappeared, replaced by sitcoms, magazine shows and "soft" dramas like L.A. Law and Northern Exposure. Violence is largely confined to a few reality shows, Cops, America's Most Wanted, and true-crime TV movies -- which are abundant but whose violence looks positively prim beside the brutality of any Lethal Weapon sequel or Schwarzenegger extravaganza...
...woman, played with aggressive vulnerability by Zoe Caldwell, is trying to reconcile herself to three facts: her favorite child grew up to be gay; he was murdered by gay-bashers; and the assailants were black, which has triggered a racism she alternately vents and recoils from. Her companion, seemingly prim, is given a deeply pragmatic and adaptive grasp of life by Frances Sternhagen in a performance as fine as any in her long career. This woman also lost a child, her firstborn, in an accident. For decades she has told no one, not even her other children, and she cannot...
...ongoing bankruptcy of contemporary art in Paris with a Warhol clone named Jean-Pierre Raynaud. His bright idea was to imprint 15,500 white ceramic tiles with the same photo of a Neolithic human skull and cover the walls of the French pavilion with them. As an exercise in prim, sterile chic, it's unbeatable. Australia is not short of talent, but the political correctness of its official cultural life has sent to Venice the whiny postfeminist images of Jenny Watson. Her paintings (of a victimized self, plus horses, with braids of hair pinned to the canvas) are comically...
...poland assumes the disguise of mendicant friar to get a perspective on his city. As his deputy during his chooses Angelo on the basis of his reputation for unwavering morality. As expected, the upright Angelo upsets licentious Viennese by sentencing the randy Claudio to death for fornication. When his prim novitiate sister, Isabella, comes to sue for her brother's life. Angelo finds himself consumed by the very lust he condemns, and demands sexual favors for Claudio's release. Shakespeare constructs a detailed examination of judgement, hypocrisy, severity and mercy. In the best Shakespearean comic tradition, the play ends with...
...partner in crime, Beatrice (Jessie Cohen) is equally confident and effective. Her acid attacks on Benedick melt into real compassion at the appropriate moment. Cohen's prim superciliousness perfectly captures her character...