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Only a few weeks ago, it seemed as if the stun gun was a product whose time had come. The electrical self-defense device has become a big seller, both to worried citizens who dislike conventional guns and to police departments searching for a nonlethal method of "taking down" an emotionally disturbed suspect. "We can't keep 'em in stock," says Bobbi Repasy of the O'Herron police supply firm, which sells 250 a month in Danville...
...Stun guns have been controversial since they were introduced ten years ago, however, and recent events have shown why. Five New York City police officers last week were indicted on charges growing out of use of these devices to torture four men arrested on minor drug charges. Mark Davidson, 18, unveiled in court a back and abdomen laced with dozens of "fried flesh" marks, as his lawyer put it. The allegations so outraged Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward that he forced the retirement or transfer of some 20 supervising officers, including the department's third highest official...
Eight Democrats hit the hustings for their party's 1984 presidential nomination. Vice President Walter Mondale had built an imposing lead over Space Hero John Glenn in the race to take on Reagan, who set Jan. 29 as the date for an announcement that will stun the world only if it is not an official declaration of his candidacy for reelection...
Panoramic views of the Russian landscape and gorgeous country estates stun our eyes with crystalline grandeur. The sections of the movie set in a luxurious health spa where bureaucrats take siestas resemble the decadence of Roman orgies. Gorky Park delves into all levels of Russian society, revealing their hidden characters as Renko uncovers latent horrors...
...Daddy's son and Maggie's husband, drowns himself in alcohol and gradually becomes alive as he is forced to explain why he has turned away from the world and steeped himself in his own self-disgust. Houghton endows Brick with a taut passivity; his physical outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character's inability to accept his guilt about his feelings of love for his dead friend Skipper. Cox's Maggie exploits Brick's passivity and seeming impotence as she desperately tries to reawaken his love for her. Cox portrays a sensual, hyperactive, and manipulative Maggie...