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...longer afraid of the police. Blacks have invented a name for the new youthful criminals: they are the comtsotsis, gangsters masquerading as political activists. In Soweto, which has 3 million residents, an epidemic of car thefts and armed holdups has left many people cowering in their homes after sunset. The township ranks among the murder capitals of the world: in 1989 Soweto reported 1,383 killings, compared with 1,900 in New York City and 434 in Washington...
...FACT IS, love is fun. It's fun to snuggle on a bearskin rug and gaze dreamily into each other's eyes. It's fun to hold hands, skipping happily down a country lane into the sunset. And it's especially fun to tell embarrassing stories to complete strangers about your partner. (My boyfriend's name is Joe and he loves to fold socks...
...Ernst's wife. Luke hires himself out for parties so that he can supply guest lists to a ring of thieves who prefer to pull off their heists when no one is home. Hilda Damien, the self-made millionaire whose healthy glow gives her the look of "a mild sunset," is unavoidably detained and never shows up for dessert. About the time the creme brulee is served, Hilda is being smothered to death by burglars who thought she would be dining...
...unique sound, as well as a further source of income: with a repertory of Mexican favorites, they could work the local wedding circuit. Eventually the coming of punk and the revitalizing of the Los Angeles music scene lured them out of the barrio and over to the Sunset Strip, where they found the beginnings of an audience that would turn them into a critics' favorite (they were 1984's Band of the Year in Rolling Stone) and a campus-radio cornerstone...
Finally, there is profound confusion over what it means to be a man today. Men have faced warping changes in role models since the women's movement drove the strong, stoic John Wayne-type into the sunset. Replacing him was a new hero: the hollow-chested, sensitive, New Age man who bawls at Kodak commercials and handles a diaper the way Magic Johnson does a basketball. Enter Alan Alda...