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...little too pat ("Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd") but they still sound, well, like Boston cops. Sayles also captures the peculiar accents of Appalachia, especially the banter of men who work hard, as when one tells another, "You're so ugly you have to tie a pork chop around your neck just to git the dawg to play with...
...ghetto areas around the country, arson is often a means of feeding drug habits. Unable to afford the tools to remove valuable brass plumbing, sinks, bathtubs and refrigerators in abandoned buildings, junkies pour inflammable liquid around the rooms, set a blaze and wait for firemen to chop up the floors, exposing the loot. Then the "mango hunters," as New York cops call them for their practice of reaping a harvest of stolen goods, move in, drag ou the fire-resistant fixtures and sell them -a bathtub is worth $25 on the open market, a wash basin $15. Some areas...
...thing that blows Koch's cool is the charge by former supporters that he has deserted liberalism on law-and-order questions. "The illiberal liberals want to chop your head off if you support capital punishment," Koch declares. "It's immoral, they say. Why is it immoral? It's part of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. I resent those liberals who let conservatives preempt issues which are of concern to the people, like crime...
...Watergate. Liddy was released from federal prison in Danbury, Conn., after 52½ months behind bars. Accompanied by his wife Frances, the grim-faced Liddy strode through the crowd to a waiting Pinto. Once the trunk was loaded with his few possessions, he slammed it shut with a karate chop. Asked how he felt, he responded, this time in German, "What does not destroy me makes me stronger." His destination, he said, was "east of the sun and west of the moon." That turned out to be his home in Oxon Hill, Md., where he had a long-awaited reunion...
Unfortunately the wilderness is far more fragile than it looks. The growing interest in backpacking has intensified traffic on some hiking trails, causing serious erosion. "These are environmentally concerned people," says Tom Wilson, an N.P.S. official. "They don't chop down trees or litter. But the mere fact that they're here can wear out trails. These are fragile ecosystems...