Word: treating
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This is fertile territory for exploration and no recent effort in any medium is more ambitious than Prince of the City, which tells the story of a detective in a free-wheeling narcotics unit who decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) decides to turn on his fellow officers and surreptitiously "wear a wire" (tape recorder), Prince takes a relentlessly compelling journey through the value system of the entire profession. But there is a fatal flaw that prevents the movie from capturing the meaning of Ciello's "turning." The character even...
...next April. A fortnight earlier he had issued new guidelines for Israeli forces serving in the occupied territories. Henceforth, they should avoid entering Arab schools in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights; roadblock checks should be as civil as possible; and efforts should be made not to treat large segments of the Arab population as terrorist sympathizers. The orders amounted to an admission that the dour, ironfisted occupation policy of the previous 16 months, during which demonstrating Arab youngsters were occasionally fired upon by Israeli soldiers, was a failure...
...death was likely to soften Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's stand against the prisoner demands. Indeed, British authorities were encouraged when the family of 25-year-old Patrick McGeown, who had gone blind and suffered from severe head pains after 42 days without food, agreed to let doctors treat him. But some Catholics hoped that Thatcher might be influenced by a bold proposal from an unexpected quarter. In an editorial, London's Sunday Times, a pillar of the Establishment, argued that Britain should give up sovereignty over Northern Ireland...
...treat of the show, however, is a group of paintings by Gaspare Traversi. Very little is known about his life, not even the dates of his birth and death; he worked in Naples, however, between 1750 and 1775, and the cultural milieu of the city-overlapping, as it did, with lowlife, and scratching for crumbs of patronage at the skirts of the nobility-gave him limitless opportunities for satire. Traversi's two paintings of education in the arts, one showing a girl at the harpsichord, the other a young woman learning to draw, are vinegary, weird and hilarious...
...Trick or treat, the split season may not end until Halloween...