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...Chicago cops who recount, in alternating monologues, a harrowing chain of events that tears their lifelong friendship apart. The material is familiar to streetwise fans of Hollywood crime films and TV cop shows--the prostitutes and lowlifes, shocking violence and moral compromises faced by cops who patrol the urban jungle. But Huff's vivid, intricately layered script--a mix of straight narration, interlaced commentary and re-created scenes--lifts it far above the usual clichs, both detaching us from the melodrama and imbuing it with the force of tragedy...
...image of close combat in the verdant, achingly fertile French countryside seems fantastical now, like something out of The Lord of the Rings, so accustomed are we to watching dusty urban combat on CNN. Surgeons disinfected wounds with Calvados. Unmilked cows wandered bellowing through the ruins of ancient chteaus. Artillery crews learned to fire airbursts into the thick tops of chestnut trees to kill those underneath with splinters...
...Omar Little)—praised the series for its refusal to simplify its characters and for its holistic portrayal of the social, political and economic forces acting on individuals at all levels of American society. “The Wire has done more to enhance understanding of systemic urban inequality than any published study by social scientists,” said Wilson, who will be teaching a course next year using “The Wire” as a frame for discussing poverty. Bobo echoed this sentiment, describing “The Wire?...
...case study in a class on community leadership she teaches at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. She said she came to the event to hear more about how other academics and the actors view the role of “The Wire” in depicting urban life...
...true? For all the anecdotal evidence, the notion that psychotic strangers pose a danger to children has been repeatedly debunked. Only two children are known to have been killed by poisoned Halloween loot. In both cases, the perpetrators were family members who tried to exploit the trick-or-treating urban legend to throw police off their trail. Plenty of parents call poison centers to report concerns related to Halloween, says Gail Banach, director of education at the Upstate New York Poison Center in Syracuse, but overall complaints don't spike. And other experts agree that the concern is overblown...