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...Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), his hotheaded, battle-fatigued partner. Some of Bochco's devices have become too facile and familiar (the shaky, hand-held camera; a major character who takes six slugs at point-blank range and survives miraculously the following week). But his storytelling skills have never been sharper, and his favorite theme -- the clash between institutions and people, between the law and justice -- has never been dramatized at a higher, more compelling pitch...
...bitter men, treacherous women and slicing shadows, is making spectral appearances on cable TV this summer. But noir is easier to evoke than it is to revive. Fallen Angels, Showtime's series of short films, errs in thinking the genre is all venetian blinds and overhead fans. For a sharper rear view, check out The Wrong Man. Director Jim McBride (The Big Easy) and writers Roy Carlson and Michael Thoma have the inside word on noir. It isn't a look but a vision -- a bleak take on life and its evil twin, death...
...BOTTOM LINE: The singer follows up her smash 1985 album of show tunes with / an even smarter, sharper collection...
...mood for a little shopping? Flanking Quincy Market are pricey gift and craft shops as well as such traditional mall favorites as Victoria's Secret, The Sharper Image, Banana Republic and The Gap. Don't forget to visit the seven-story Limited...
...Earth and Sun and Moon the wages of justice remain the same, but the lyrics are sharper, the music deeper. The band, which has been influenced by the Aboriginal cultures of the Australian outback, has forged a passionate yet never preachy style that expresses its activist instincts in elemental terms. Propelled by jagged guitar riffs and a buoyant rock beat, the 11 songs seethe with apocalyptic images derived from urban nightmares and primordial dreams. Dust storms, hurricanes and infernal conflagrations rake the world in a kind of New Age Armageddon. In the eyes of Midnight Oil, Mother Nature has been...