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...times the city has seemed so consumed with crime that it was incapable of thinking about anything else. Nursery-school teachers in some of the city's tougher neighborhoods train children barely old enough to talk to hit the floor at the sound of gunshots. They call them "firecrackers" and reward the swift with a lollipop...
...been getting easier or tougher for you to live in New York...
...prison make a man so calm? As I listened to Gunter Grass (a stolid German with some huge gravity pulling him earthward) discussing the Nazis, my mind drifted to Vaclav Havel, who I decided is an alert woodland creature. Jimmy Carter shines with a likable sweetness, but he is tougher than you may think...
Stars, of course, are one way of freshening up trite formulas. But the task is getting tougher. James Earl Jones brings his bearlike charisma to the role of an ex-con who becomes an investigator for a defense attorney in Gabriel's Fire. But the writers do him no service, with pretentious narration ("Where am I? I look around and it feels like a dream") and a predictable odd-couple relationship with the yuppie lawyer he works for (Laila Robins). CBS's Evening Shade, meanwhile, has recruited such veterans as Burt Reynolds, Hal Holbrook and Elizabeth Ashley to breathe some...
...Saddam moves quickly to seal all escape outlets, Kuwaitis and the remaining foreigners, who include some 2,500 Americans, will be in for tougher times. Baghdad Radio has warned Kuwaiti citizens that they will face "the severest of punishments" if they provide Westerners with shelter. Meanwhile, Saddam is filling Kuwait with thousands of Iraqis, who arrive in trucks with all their belongings and orders to take up residence in abandoned apartments. "By the time Saddam has finished," says a refugee in Saudi Arabia, "the population will be completely different." And Kuwait may well be a place no Kuwaiti would want...