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...across the U.S. The smoldering anger between a husband and wife ignites and ends with a pistol shot. The suffocating weight of depression vanishes, with gunfire, into the imagined peace of death. A hunting trip turns tragic, and a family is destroyed. The stupidity of playing with a loaded weapon leaves a young boy dead. The momentary incivility of a pair of barroom brawlers results in bloody death...
...flag at that level of power is tricky. Lyndon Johnson quite literally ground his teeth when he looked out his White House window and saw the Viet Nam protesters desecrate flags. But he was a prisoner of jingoism gone sour. Richard Nixon used the Stars and Stripes as a weapon against the marchers, ordering extraordinary displays of flags, pointedly wearing a flag lapel...
...offered by the government. The court has been sharply criticized for agreeing to preconditions set by Lisbet Palme for her testimony, including a ban on tape recorders and television cameras. The prosecutors, whose case against Pettersson is built on circumstantial evidence, have yet to come up with a murder weapon or a motive...
This grim fantasy is engendered by exposure, in rapid succession, to the films underlying those last two presold titles and by the prospect of The Karate Kid III, Lethal Weapon II, Nightmare on Elm Street V and, heaven forfend, Friday the 13th VIII. Not to mention James Bond umpty-ump. The basic criticism of sequels is as familiar as it is correct: they represent the triumph of commercial caution over creative daring...
...often have trouble forging a masculine identity without one of the primary accompaniments -- a job. Teen unemployment is endemic among poor youth, running more than 40% in many communities. Meanwhile, welfare and social programs suffered drastic cutbacks during the Reagan era. Says Chicago psychiatrist Carl Bell: "Violence is the weapon of the powerless." Agrees Professor Leah Blumberg Lapidus of Columbia Teachers College in Manhattan: "It relieves boredom and makes a statement, like graffiti, that says, 'Notice...