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...where these trunks lie twisted in treeless meadows and spotted owls venture no more, the poor bird draws more attention and gets more press than the most popular county sheriff. According to Sallie Tisdale, writing in the Sierra Club's July/August 1992 issue of Sierra magazine, "Spotted owls have been shot, crucified, hung and their corpses mailed to various people perceived as environmentalists...
...honorable way out of the 'hood, has gradually closed its doors to all but the most qualified applicants, which usually excludes gang members. "There are a hell of a lot of gang members that would like to get out," says Sergeant Wes McBride of the Los Angeles County sheriff's department. "But there are not a lot of social programs out there to help them." For a 14-year-old living in a housing project run by a gang, it doesn't cut it to plead a hectic schedule when the guys come knocking. "If you're in the projects...
Whatever he was -- Will, Clint -- he now sees his star in eclipse; "I ain't different from anybody else no more." So why is he riding into town with an old partner (Morgan Freeman) to go up against a tough sheriff (Gene Hackman) and collect the bounty on a couple of cowpokes who slashed a prostitute? He says it's for the money. But it's really because a man's job is his life. Will shoots people. Clint shoots westerns...
Three murderous drug dealers (Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Beach, Cynda Williams) blast and bludgeon their way from Los Angeles to rural Arkansas and a face-off against a hick sheriff (Bill Paxton). Tracing a similar itinerary, ONE FALSE MOVE has snaked across the country. Too pensive for the action houses and way too violent for the croissant crowd, the movie has earned many critics' indulgences. It does have some B-movie virtues: director Carl Franklin gives the actors space to breathe the rancid air of paperback tough- guy tragedy; and Williams, with her lovely insolence, looks like star quality from...
Matthew Beck, a deputy sheriff from Pleasanton, Calif., stood up in the White House Rose Garden Wednesday morning and asked George Bush a question that's been on a lot of Americans' minds lately. "I'd like to know," Beck said, "why I should vote...