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...some time. Last fall's stilettos and minis slit to the waist presented a crude, aggressive sexuality women chose largely to ignore. These were clothes, it seemed, for the woman always carrying around an extra ice pick in her purse, not the one just hoping for a lively Saturday-night dinner date. Women, though, were ready for clothes that invited some attention. In recent years, when sexual correctness was the rage, the romance trend might not have found such an embracing audience. "These dresses," notes Martin, "would have been impossible to make a decade...
...types of guns sold, who buys and sells them and the background of shooters and victims alike. Wintemute's 1994 study Ring of Fire, for example, takes a hard look at gunmakers around Los Angeles. It has been hailed as a major indictment of the cheapie pistols known as "Saturday-night specials," the weapons of choice of inner-city gangs. The California effort to impose tough new regulations to control their manufacture and sale is largely in response to this study...
Wintemute took a particular interest in Saturday-night specials, favorite "starter" guns because of their low price (as little as $25), easy availability and compact size. He found that their chief makers--the companies mentioned in Ring of Fire--did not exist until after 1968, when Congress, reacting to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, banned handgun imports but did not prohibit domestic manufacture. The study showed that the guns were dangerous not just to people who found themselves looking down their barrels but also to their owners. The guns often misfired, were inaccurate and, lacking...
Wintemute and his colleagues provided a clear statistical link between Saturday-night specials and youthful crime. Their 1996 study showed that even teenage buyers of these guns with no criminal record were more likely than purchasers of more expensive handguns to commit violent crimes with them...
...point he had legitimate complaints," Tarses says. "It's all about the way you handle a situation.") Iger has since taken on the role of running interference between Tarses and some Hollywood heavyweights. When The Practice, a lawyer drama from producer David E. Kelley, was shunted to a weak Saturday-night time period so PrimeTime Live could remain on Wednesdays (Iger's call), Iger broke the bad news in a conference call with Kelley and Tarses. "Jamie and I agreed that there are certain things I could help her with," he says. "That should not be interpreted as a lack...