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...John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood is another slice of fictionalized autobiography: a life story that could have been a death warrant. The boys in the neighborhood must wonder if they have any choice but dying poor from drugs or dying rich selling them. Lame as moviemaking craft, the picture is nonetheless a harrowing document true to the director's south-central Los Angeles milieu; he paints it black. Boyz N the Hood functions both as a condemnation of the world outside any big-city movie house and as an inspiration to those aspiring outsiders who would change history...
...just over a year ago that Sacramento police found Danielle Bock, 17, shot dead in the street. Within a week prosecutors brought a murder charge against Richard Jason Singleton, 19. But it will be January 1991 at the earliest before Singleton comes to trial. Not until December did the case reach superior court. Although Singleton had demanded an immediate trial before that hearing, he later asked for a continuance. The prosecutors agreed, and thus it will be almost two years since Bock's death before her accused killer faces a jury...
...cases available for prosecution, only 65 produced convictions or guilty pleas. Almost all of the 43 other suspects identified are, like Singleton, in prison awaiting trial or indictment...
Despite the lack of challenging competition, the Harvard swimmers were able to push each other to qualify for Easterns in two weeks. The Crimson's Sumner Anderson, Ken Pasternak and Kraig Singleton all made the Easterns...
...exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington (on view through March 25). Anyone who visits the exhibition with hopes of high aesthetic pleasure will be disappointed. There are a few paintings in it, and one small sculpture, of real substance and beauty: work by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson and William Harnett, and a bronze study of a black soldier's head done for the Shaw Memorial in Boston, his greatest public work of art, by Augustus Saint- Gaudens. And there is a great deal of poor to average American 19th century art -- clumsy...