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Baby Insane earned his name. He dodged automatic weapons fire successfully, against considerable odds, but his repeated collisions with the law eventually forced him to choose between doing heavy prison time and turning informer. A shrewd detective named Patrick Birse -- called Buddha because he looked like one -- persuaded him to turn. The author's tough, believable account of their edgily trustful relationship offers no solutions at all to the gang problem facing most of the nation's cities. But it does suggest why a restless man might become a detective, and why a bright, rootless boy might take shelter with...
Forrester has other problems. A career thug attacks her and rapes her teenage daughter. Not very believably, she tracks him down and shoots him, bang-bang. Melodrama ripens as a shrewd cop attached to her department reports his progress in tracking down the killer, who of course is Lily herself. Will he turn her in? Not before he chews some scenery: "I am the law. Not the judges on their high benches too far from it to even smell it. I'm the one who gets shot at. The one who has to inhale the rotting flesh of the society...
...Thomson, and despite a length more appropriate to the life of a world leader than that of a relatively minor -- though never inconspicuous -- movie producer, Thomson's book never wears down the reader either. Partly that's because Thomson is a writer of rare grace as well as a shrewd, knowledgeable and critically astute observer of high Hollywood's golden years. Partly it is because, despite many exasperating sins and shortcomings, David O. Selznick was a curiously likable...
Dampening expectations is prudent and shrewd, but it won't get Clinton off the hook. A sick economy in 1996 will sink him. No one expects miracles, and few will quibble if the economy isn't completely well, but it had better be on the mend and be seen to be. "If 70% of the people still think the country is on the wrong track," says a Clinton aide, "we're dead." While key policy decisions hang unresolved, several structural and personnel determinations are of equal importance. Foremost is the exact role of the Economic Security Council, the new White...
...reading of the Canon of Ethics persuades me that I cannot pursue this case simply as a Treblinka matter on the premise that it is tactically shrewd and morally acceptable because we think he was a guard elsewhere," Parker wrote in the memo, according to The Post...