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Little and his roommates rent movies about three times a week, though "only on a very slow weekend would we stay in and watch." Friends come over and munch popcorn while watching favorites such as "Beverly Hills Cop," "Ghostbusters," and "Trading Places." But, Little says, two of the three machines are usually on loan to friends: "Not many of my friends own VCRs; they're all borrowing mine...
...movie's few flirtations with the Halloween genre are handled economically and gracefully--the psychiatrist/investigator, the macho-hero-in-pursuit, the hardboiled reporter, and the renegade cop all have their moment as they rotate around the central character. There's even a brief humorous romance for Daughter Number Two, and Shelley Hack, ex-Charlie's Angel, makes a successful shift from feathered hair and bellbottoms to mid-urban motherhood...
...sounds. Echoes in the Darkness and Engaged to Murder have nothing to do with Grace Kelly's relatives or rowing on the Schuylkill, although some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives. So it is no surprise that Joseph Wambaugh, the former Los Angeles cop who writes well about the police (The Blue Knights, The Onion Field), attempts to establish a gothic mood. He associates the feeling with eastern Pennsylvania's brooding Germanic influences and forbidding estate architecture. His competition, Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, prefers the interior decoration...
Establishing a strong narrative line for this Pennsylvania death trip is not easy. Old Pro Wambaugh chooses the cop's-eye view, telling much of the story as developed by the state police investigation and dispensing considerable amounts of macabre station-house humor. He is also fond of old-fashioned hard- boiled detective prose: "Bill Bradfield avoided that man like a vampire avoids sunburn," and "as predictable as a Tijuana dog race." At times his tone grows weary, as if he were thinking, "How the hell did I ever get mixed up with these wackos and patsies?" Schwartz-Nobel...
...when some 40,000 tons / of the waste will have accumulated. The proclaimed reasons: DOE needs the extra time for more research, to consult with states and Indian tribes, to meet licensing requirements. As with the federal deficit, it appeared that DOE has succumbed to a classic Washington cop-out: if a problem is difficult, let the next generation deal with...