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Baker would provide something Bush has lacked since John Sununu departed last December: a high-level bad cop who can keep the troops in line and sometimes read the riot act to Bush himself. Bush's aversion to conflict makes him a congenial fellow, which is a recipe for failure in a presidential campaign. Yet Bush resents having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, / and the Secretary has long since grown tired of coming to the rescue. Bush's aides concede there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot...
...conventional cop opera, the puzzle -- Does Victor think he is protecting Strike, or did he somehow really shoot Darryl? -- would be the focus, and the detective would sort it out. Here, despite Rocco's efforts, nothing becomes clear, and Dempsy's new accumulations of refuse obscure last week's stains. Instead of a solution, Price leaves us with a sheaf of memorable sketches: Dempsy's citizens, peering at the streets from behind the broken panes of their lives. This is a superb reportorial novel, a fine job of writing and witnessing...
...SWEET OF MURTAUGH (DANNY GLOVer) to keep pulling unlighted cigarettes out of his partner's mouth. Since the cops' lives are a nonstop succession of explosions, fire fights and car chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added...
DERELICTION AT THE TOP: In many other cities, police chief Daryl Gates would have been removed from office after the Rodney King beating. Instead, the city's civil service laws give Mayor Tom Bradley no authority over the city's top cop, who can be fired only for corruption or criminal behavior. During his 14 years as chief, the controversial Gates had set the tenor of a macho, take- no-nonsense police force. Despite cries for his resignation, Gates clung to his job -- and only reluctantly agreed to retire at the end of June. It was too late. On April...
...Well, the magistrate was there." But the magistrate cannot give testimony. "The representative for the cop was there too, but the cop didn't show up again." Come back in a month, says the judge...