Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that prison reform has worked some quiet miracle of rehabilitation. Experienced in mates know better. Understaffed and undersupervised, county jails often provide terror far more chilling than any thing to be found in a full-scale pen itentiary. Last week the everyday horrors of life in Chicago's Cook County Jail erupted into public view. A grand jury has been investigating, and the city's newspapers have started interviewing former inmates. The result is a stomach-turning catalogue of depravity...
...Jean IvlacDonald, a 57-year-old widow, went to jail after defying a court order to let a bank appraise her home. It was a matter of principle, she says; she was held in contempt and sent to Cook County Jail. "As I walked through the gates," she remembers, "I saw female prisoners walking around nude from the waist up-in full view of the male guards." But the exhibitionism was homosexual, not heterosexual. Open lesbianism was standard. "It was unbelievable," says Mrs. Macdonald. "Women would take off their clothes, climb on top of tables and indulge in perversions. They...
...accounts, dope is easily available, almost any favor can be bought and only the cunning and the brutal thrive. Moreover, penologists know that the Cook County Jail is by no means the sole or worst offender. In the wake of the disclosures, similar investigations were suggested for the city jail, where a guard recently beat a prisoner to death, and the juvenile home, where homosexuality is also rampant...
...ancestor of all man-v.-devil stories, the Faust legend has spawned some curious offspring over the centuries. The latest, Stanley Donen's Bedazzled, could in all likelihood qualify as the worst. A meek little short-order cook (Dudley Moore) hankers inarticulately after the waitress (Eleanor Bron) in a London greasy spoon. The Devil (Peter Cook) follows him home and makes a proposition: seven wishes granted, a soul in return...
...defenses begin to crumble, a scratch on the record breaks the romantic mood. Moore also asks to have a perfect spiritual union with his beloved, but he fails to specify one important detail and thus ends up as a nun. Finally, his wishes spent, he throws himself on Cook's mercy; in a resolution that would have sickened Goethe and Marlowe, the Devil inexplicably turns gentleman and calls off the deal...