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...This is the third work that Price has set in Dempsy, his fictional New Jersey town of blue-collar strivers, scuttling young men on the make and always, always, the police. He discovered the book's themes in himself when he was doing the street research about cops and crack dealers for Clockers. In preparation for that book, he dropped into the lives of people - narcs, druglords, ghetto mothers - who opened up to him. He charmed them. He wowed their kids. He fed their news into his notebooks, then moved on. "I always felt like I was leaving people seduced...
...April 10, the Committee on Undergraduate Education wisely voted down Professor Stephen A. Marglin’s proposal to offer an alternative course to Martin Feldstein’s Ec 10. The idea of an alternative Ec 10 is well-intentioned but a cop-out; Feldstein has to go. When the Economics Department makes its final decision on April 22, they should bypass Marglin’s proposal and resolve to choose a new professor to teach...
...cop thought that I was a terrorist filming the harbor,” Rodriguez says. In the end, the police officer didn’t give Rodriguez a warning or a ticket, just kudos for his convertible...
...there so many cop, lawyer and doctor shows? The thinking is, their settings are inherently dramatic. Cops shoot and get shot. Lawyers battle over deals. Doctors fight for people's lives in the hospital...
...carefully developed, it is far too out of place in a comedy of this nature. An attempt at resolution is tacked on at movie’s end, but offers little satisfaction to the viewers, who have emotionally invested too much in these two characters to deserve a cop-out conclusion. This is perhaps the film’s greatest blunder; it has too many elements of a movie that it is not trying to be. Emotionally the film may pack a wallop, but comically, it’s nothing more than a soft blow...