Word: command
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you are dealing with a riot, a police officer's role really gets reduced to command, control and contain. Over the course of a career, a police officer gets involved in command and control maybe 10% of the time. The rest of the time you are responding to calls for service, whether you are dealing with disturbances, abandoned vehicles, sanitation violations or traffic control...
...fears of black crime, events quickly conspired to intensify that dread. A crowd of protesters, mainly black, outraged by the acquittals, gathered before dusk at L.A. police headquarters. Some tried to storm the doors; others sheared off toward nearby city hall, where Mayor Tom Bradley had taken up a command post in the basement. A flag was set on fire; a booth in a parking lot sprouted flames. Under the night sky, patches of Los Angeles began to burn...
...family. They have a deserted chateau for a home. They have a designated Father (Frank Whaley), a sometime seminarian whose priestly aspirations have gone awry; a designated Mother (Gary Sinise), a fussbudget teetering on the brink of mental breakdown; and a favored son, Will Knott (Ethan Hawke), sergeant in command as well as the film's narrator and controlling sensibility...
...Germans are a more ragtag outfit. Their command post is a forest hut, and their personnel are either overage or underage -- the last scrapings of a nearly defeated nation's manpower pool. It is they who begin a suit for a separate peace. When they get the drop on some of the G.I.s, they don't fire. To test their intentions, one of the Americans builds a funny snowman-Hitler; the Germans respond by attacking their position -- with snowballs. Next thing you know both sides are singing Christmas carols together, exchanging presents and trying to work...
...Woman I Am. The title reflects a new self-determination that goes beyond mere semantics. Taking charge for the first time in her 20-year career, Khan produced the album herself and co-wrote six of its 13 songs, including the title track. Her fiery contralto is in total command on all of them, swooping effortlessly from a raunchy growl to a soulful wail. The result is frisky, hip-shaking music. So go ahead, party hearty...