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...surprising is the majority's failure even to mention the severe crime epidemic that has spread through the streets of Boston and its surrounding communities. How would the candidates ensure the safety of residents too afraid to walk the streets? Which candidate has proposed a more coherent plan to put criminals behind bars? Would either candidate do what New York Governor Mario Cuomo has done and call for the hiring of more police officers? Who knows? The staff doesn't seem to care...
...about sex," explains Reinisch. "They believe they know everything they need to know. If you believe you know something, you don't even go looking for answers." Some questions may seem trivial, she concedes, but all deal with vital information that can affect health and well-being or even put lives in jeopardy...
...networks are pushing the boundaries of language and subject matter more aggressively too. Uncle Buck, a CBS sitcom based on the John Candy movie, has already drawn fire for filling the mouths of its onscreen tykes with raunchy put-downs like "you suck" and "freckle butt." In the first episode of Cop Rock, the topic of urination is discussed no fewer than three times. ("I gotta pee," pleads a reluctant witness during a rough police interrogation.) CBS's The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, starring Sharon Gless as an attorney with midlife problems, features the season's most attention-grabbing...
...many rich people that I once came to the conclusion that other cities were sending us the rich people they wanted to get rid of ("Listen, if Frank down at the bank doesn't quit talking about how much his Jaguar costs, we're just going to have to put him in the next shipment to New York"). Some of the weird-looking people and some of the rich people are the same people. Why would a rich person want to look weird? As we New Yorkers like to say, Go know...
...bike-lane episode reminds me that you'd better put "contentious" near the top of that list, right under "funny looking." (Not just "funny looking," come to think of it, but also "funny": New York is the only city I've ever been in where almost everyone you meet on the street considers himself a comedian -- a fact brought home to me a couple of years ago when a panhandler near my subway stop said to me, "Can you spare some change? I'd like to buy a few junk bonds.") In the matter of contentiousness, I once tried...