Word: weaponeering
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...videocamera, long the weapon of choice among obsessive parents, is finding favor with crime fighters these days. The Los Angeles police's grisly beating of Rodney King, videotaped by an amateur and aired on national television in March, was only the first of a growing number of America's Unfunniest Home Videos. At a Washington trial last month, prosecutors introduced a videotape of five men robbing and beating victims during a 1989 crime spree, which was recorded for posterity by one of the defendants...
...company offered majestic productions of such epics as Prokofiev's War and Peace and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, plus that Russian national favorite, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. That was the monolithic age of Brezhnev, after all, and the Bolshoi had long been the Kremlin's chief cultural weapon; the party bureaucracy decreed the choices of repertory, casting, even stage sets. The results were as strong as a tank, and just as subtle. Still, American audiences were impressed by the quality of the spectacle, no less than by the company's rich history and exoticism...
...with having their profits pilfered, musicians are striking back with the weapon they know best -- their own music. Next week Zappa will kick off his "Beat the Boots!" campaign with the release of a 10-album Bootleg Box of his own music that had been bootlegged. Says Zappa: "I think it's up to artists to do whatever they can to stand up for their rights...
...will come when the committee decides how to answer calls to step up "mass action" campaigns of strikes, boycotts and marches. De Klerk charges that these inspire violence and intimidation, poisoning the atmosphere for talks. But A.N.C. hard-liners feel that mass action, like international sanctions, is a vital weapon. "If you look at how the East European countries changed," says Peter Mokaba, leader of the A.N.C. Youth League, "it was mass action that actually pushed the undemocratic regimes out of power...
...have is a gift for whimsy, and that, alas, is the chief ingredient of Maximum Bob (Delacorte; 295 pages; $20). The title character is a sleazoid Florida judge who likes to hit on lady cops and hand out heavy sentences. Someone tries to ice Maximum Bob with a unique weapon: a hungry alligator. There is a long enemies list, including Leanne, the judge's loony wife; Dale Crowe, the latest victim of his warped justice; Dale's murderous uncle Elvin; and Dr. Tommy Vasco, a former dermatologist with a skinful of booze and drugs. Maximum Bob's survival depends...