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...movie Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman, takes place in the police precinct where I lived. In the movie, the neighborhood is depicted as an urban sinkhole, block after block of burned-out tenements, garbage-strewn streets and weed-choked lots, populated by gangs, junkies, pimps, hookers, maniacs, cop killers and third-generation welfare families. That is not quite the Hunts Point I was raised in, although it was hardly elm trees and picket fences. We kept our doors and windows locked. I remember a steel rod running from the back of our front door to a brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY AMERICAN JOURNEY: Colin Powell | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...weakest arguments for the V chip in general is that it allows network television to offer more adult programming, since adults will be able to weed out what they do not want their children to view. Parents seem to want the best of all worlds. Rather than some cable television packages in which parents may chose note to subscribe to entire channels, or limit these channels to certain times of the day, they can avoid having to block out an entire network affiliate. Selective restriction seems to be a good compromise...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: The Demystification of the Black Box | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

...complete the long withdrawal process before the bitter Bosnian winter sets in. Meanwhile in Srebrenica, over 30,000 civilians began their evacuation to Bosnian government held territory 30 miles away. Women and children were moved first, while in an ominous move, Serb soldiers detained males over 16 to weed out alleged "war criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITY COUNCIL TORN OVER BOSNIA | 7/12/1995 | See Source »

...ready-made metaphor right there, and all I had was this crummy shopping mall in upstate New York. You can sort of float in a mall, but not too far, just around in the same old circle, which gets boring even if you manage to score some decent weed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FLOAT TRIP | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...book, who's stuck not with a river but a mere shopping mall, a place whereTIME book critic John Skowsays "you can sort of float, but not too far, just around in the same old circle, which gets kind of boring even if you manage to score some decent weed." Thursday's TIME Daily

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS . . . "RULE OF THE BONE" | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

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