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...best, criminals at worst. So far, it must be said, there is not much evidence of that. With the exception of people calling in to radio talk shows -- one in New York City called the rioters a bunch of "terrorists and anarchists" who would seize on any pretext to wreak the destruction they enjoy -- most whites were fairly circumspect in voicing their opinions...
...local eloquence, Jazz never convincingly accounts for the horror that Joe and Violet feel compelled to wreak. That they have suffered -- from white racism, poverty -- is made abundantly clear. Their individual motives for lashing out as they do are not. Asked directly why he shot Dorcas, Joe says, "Scared. Didn't know how to love anybody." Asked why she tried to carve up a dead girl's face, Violet answers, "I don't know." Great fiction explains the inexplicable. By that standard, Jazz measures up as very good...
Brown was re-elected in 1978, but many Californians had lost confidence in the governor. In 1981, the Mediterranean fruit fly invaded the state's Central Valley, threatening to wreak havoc on California's huge agricultural industry...
Free radicals are cellular renegades; they wreak havoc by damaging DNA, altering biochemical compounds, corroding cell membranes and killing cells outright. Such molecular mayhem, scientists increasingly believe, plays a major role in the development of ailments like cancer, heart or lung disease and cataracts. Many researchers are convinced that the cumulative effects of free radicals also underlie the gradual deterioration that is the hallmark of aging in all individuals, healthy as well as sick. Antioxidants, studies suggest, might help stem the damage by neutralizing free radicals. In effect they perform as cellular sheriffs, collaring the radicals and hauling them away...
...surprise hit movie offers no marquee names and no special effects, only a small cup of poison for maternal peace of mind. In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Rebecca De Mornay plays the Nanny from Hell, who insinuates herself into the home of a trusting family only to wreak havoc on it. In the weeks after the film climbed to No. 1, earning a stunning $65 million, magazines and newspapers have scurried to find real-life examples of psycho-nannies, which in turn drove home the not-so-subtle message that women who work and leave child rearing...