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This is realism of a much different sort from today's "gritty" cop shows or socially conscious TV movies. The Mother deals with a social problem -- what is best for old people? -- yet it has no agenda, makes no statements, foments no outrage. There are no bad people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...
...cleverly built foundation underlies Mallory's Oracle (Putnam; 286 pages; $21.95), by newcomer Carol O'Connell; the author relates that her flamboyant main character, a young cop named Kathleen Mallory, was a Manhattan street kid into her early teens. The experience left her a borderline sociopath, and since she is both gorgeous and unusually bright, she can cause a lot of trouble. Her beloved adoptive uncle, an old police lieutenant, is murdered as the novel begins. She undertakes a lone-wolf investigation, having been forbidden to do so, and wanders like a gun-packing Alice into a mirror world...
...Haitian adventure, the admixture of Carter's mind-set and personality to those of Clinton produced strange effects. Clinton turned himself into the hypermasculine, planes-in-the-air bad cop while Carter fluttered in as the angel of conciliation, the Blanche DuBois of crisis diplomacy...
...like the fact that the violent criminal doesn't even go to jail." He recalls a thug who attacked a fellow officer a few years ago, wrestled his gun away, jammed it under the officer's bulletproof vest and tried to fire. "He wanted to kill him, but the cop got his hand in between the hammer and the firing pin," Janes says. "I took this guy to jail, and he was joking that he'd do it again if he got the chance. Anyway, 18 months later, I was involved in a car chase. I finally stopped...
...best, being a police officer places terrific stress on a family," says Harvey Schlossberg, the former director of psychological services for the New York City police department and a 20-year veteran himself. Cops "tend to feel very uncomfortable outside the company of other police officers," he observes. "They tend to be very clannish." The hypervigilance that keeps them alive on the street is hard to shed once they're home."It's as if you become a cop 24 hours a day," says the ex-husband of a New Mexico cop. "That's the way you treat everyone -- commanding...