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That was just one of the scrapes Price survived while gathering material for his shattering novel Clockers, a 599-page panorama of crime-and-drug-infested streets that appeared in May to rave reviews and is now a best seller. To write it, Price spent three years hanging out in Jersey City with cops, cocaine dealers and seemingly everyone else in the meanest parts of town. At a time when the Los Angeles riots have shocked the country into a pained awareness of its troubled neighborhoods, Clockers illuminates the underside of one city with laser-like clarity...
Rudenstine received rave reviews after his first year. Colleagues praise his efforts to build a leadership team that works well together, and to bring together a University that had grown vastly decentralized...
That tune comes midpoint on Human Touch and catches Springsteen in full cry as a "thief in the house of love," doing one of those 40-megaton rave-ups that can bring stadium crowds to their feet. Human Touch was the first of the two albums to be completed, and, with the backing of some heavy-duty Los Angeles session players and such soulful voices as Bobby King and Sam Moore, it has a real diamond-cut luster and precision. It also has plenty of nerve. Two tunes, Man's Job and Real Man, trash all the stereotypes of rock...
...reason for the surging popularity of videoscope surgery is simple: correctly performed, it can dramatically reduce surgical trauma. Since 1987, when the first diseased gall bladder was removed in this fashion, rave reviews from patients have made it almost rare for a gall bladder to be removed the old-fashioned way. And for good reason. "Before," says Dr. Eddie Joe Reddick, a retired Nashville surgeon credited with popularizing the technique, "we were committing assault and battery on our patients. It wasn't what we did to their insides, but what we did in order to get there that...
...shoot the monkey' demonstration of gravity with a cannon and a Curious George also wins rave reviews, says Rueckner. In this one, George is dropped from his high perch at the same time that a cannon, aimed right at him, is fired. Gravity eventually does poor George in, bringing the cannon ball down just enough to still...