Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knights and their editors do seem to agree on one point: that the papers should play a forceful role in the communities they serve. The Philadelphia Inquirer, once a model of police-blotter journalism, has become an important voice in local issues since Knight took it over in 1969. And in Florida the bribery and perjury charges lodged against Senator Edward Gurney last week were a direct result of dogged reporting by Knight's Miami Herald...
Still, The Seven-Ups is by far the best of the current blotter of cop movies. It deals more directly than any, including Serpico (TIME, Dec. 31), with the criminal pathology of some police men. Roy Scheider, the leader of the Seven-Ups (and Gene Hackman's part ner in The French Connection), has just the right grave, anonymous face for the part, the right quality of eruptive violence. There are no heroes here. The movie has been made with the dogged intensity that cops can bring to their work, which explains why you have a feeling of having...
...News on the lobster shift. He covered everything from wars to murder trials but eventually settled down to sportswriting, encouraged by Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon. A chunky bachelor, Cannon wrote mainly about big-league sport. He also recounted debates of bettors and bums like Two Head Charlie and The Blotter as they examined life's ironies after midnight on the side streets off Broadway. In columns beginning "Nobody Asked Me But . . ." he offered such offbeat aphorisms as "Nothing improves an actress's diction more than marrying money...
...some friends take your sister's bike? They strip it and sell the parts. Where does your loyalty lie?" In the age of rip-off and radical capitalism, such a dilemma is not uncommon. In reply, the Handbook, unfortunately, takes the tone of Pollyanna rather than the police blotter. It counsels, "Just remember to look at both sides. Listen carefully to the arguments and then do what you believe to be right...
...devotee of detective fiction knows, the most famous police station in the country is Author Ed McBain's 87th Precinct, where the cops are gruff, sentimental and occasionally fallible, but almost always good at their jobs. Fuzz is based on a blotter full of their exploits, but if the boys at the 87th ever see it, they'll have an open and shut case of criminal impersonation on their hands...