Word: busting
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...then there was the Great Snake Bust. Snake poaching is a multimillion- dollar industry, in which poachers sell skins and live specimens to pet shops and private collectors through shady mail-order houses. So bad is the problem that scientists studying a recent plague of rats in some communities surrounding Texas' Big Bend National Park came to a startling conclusion: the problem resulted from the absence of their scaly natural predators, which had been nearly poached...
There was jubilation in conservation circles last month when a newly formed U.S. Park Service antipoaching unit pulled off a classic sting operation, arresting 27 citizens from Texas to Florida in the biggest poaching bust in Park Service history. The feds posed as amateur herpetologists and would-be buyers; the crime ring's alleged kingpin, who regularly carried a semiautomatic pistol, gave up without a fight. The Park Service carried out the operation for only...
Shortly after the snake bust, Bill Tanner, the Park Service group's leader, got an ominous phone message at his Santa Fe headquarters. The caller wanted to assure him that if he sent another agent into the area, "you're gonna find him floating in the river." Tanner smiles. "That only means you're getting to these guys," he says. "You're doing your job." For poacher-hunting agents like Tanner, the big game is thick on the landscape...
Probably the most famous of Wishman's films, "Double Agent 73" features Chesty Morgan, a Polish actress of little talent and lots of cleavage. As stated above, Morgan sports, or is burdened by, a 73" bust line. (Something that unusual bears repeating). "Double Agent" features Chesty for the second time in front of Wishman's camera. Despite the fact that Wishman has said Chesty Morgan was the hardest person she ever worked with on a film, she made "Double Agent" because Chesty's first film, "Deadly Weapons" did quite well. In "Deadly Weapons," Chesty plays the widow of a gangster...
Ginsberg credits the Beat writer Herbert Huncke with transmitting the notion in the late 1940s through autobiographical reminiscences, later anthologized as The Evening Sun Turned Crimson. In one story the teenage Huncke watched the police bust a hermaphrodite junkie in a seedy hotel. "The tolerance of the kid was juxtaposed with the brutality of the cops," says Ginsberg. "The sympathetic observer, Huncke, became an exemplary illustration of what was hip." Huncke's own take on the idea is a bit darker. "It meant," he recalls, "a certain awareness of everything most people were frightened of speaking of, or of admitting...