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...perhaps out of frustration that serious crime seems to be leaping out of control, some guardians of the law have taken to enforcing these juridical minutiae with singular determination. Consider Cobb County, Ga., where serious crimes like robbery have increased since 1990. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Rebecca Anding of Marietta was arrested, handcuffed and forced to spend six hours in jail on Easter Sunday. Anding, who had no previous criminal record, was apprehended picking tulips from an office park to place on her grandmother's grave. Another Marietta resident, Linda Judson, spent four hours in jail...
...there is a nagging anxiety over the nation's soul. French culture, so some worry, is in danger of turning into pasteurized processed cheese: wholesome, possibly edible, but lacking distinctive tang and texture. What the country managed to preserve despite humiliations over the centuries -- pride in a singular civilization -- it now risks losing under the impact of American pop culture and in the homogenizing vat of that mysterious entity called Europe. Chauvinists like the immigrant baiter Jean-Marie Le Pen say the greater threat comes from African Arabs and blacks who have had the inestimable privilege of settling in France...
...some of the cinema's top exemplars of derring-do. Douglas Fairbanks (1922), Errol Flynn (1938) and Sean Connery (1976) made memorable glosses on the English lord -- and no matter that the actors hailed, respectively, from Colorado, Tasmania and Scotland. Fairbanks soared, Flynn grinned, Connery smoldered, and each struck singular movie sparks...
...fighting grinds on. The author's view of war is grim enough to be quite modern. But his evocation of love is thoroughly romantic, and so, in the balanced flourishes of the ending chapters, is his novel. Fair enough; as usual, Helprin lights his own way, in his own singular direction...
...American West of Hollywood was there in art, 70 years before, in most of its shades of triumphalism and moral uncertainty. It is the nature of big subjects to produce floods of bathos, as well as a few masterpieces, and to foster works of singular political equivocation...