Word: copping
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...encouraging but not forcing women to be rid of the things and women working in offices are asked to wear headscarves rather than cover their face completely. Most rural men believe women should be fully covered but many men in the larger cities share the sentiments of Kabul traffic cop Ghalaam Azart: "It's part of our culture and tradition for women to wear one but the decision lies with them. I cannot demand...
...Sometimes? All times. Sidney is orally assaulted by virtually every character in the film: J.J., his secretary, his sister, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's manager, another columnist, the columnist's wife, two of his clients, a cigarette girl and a fat cop. I can't think of another character in cinema history who gets harangued by so many or with such good reason. Yet Sidney is a resilient cuss; he can repackage any insult to suit the next guy in line. When a columnist in a night club spumes to Sidney that he and J.J. have "the scruples...
...good graces, he has the inspiration to plant a smear of Dallas, as a dope-smoking Red, in a rival column. That little trick doesn't drive the lovers apart so, on J.J.'s orders, Sidney plants reefers on Dallas and has him arrested and assaulted by a corrupt cop named Harry Kello. Later that night Sidney is summoned to J.J.'s penthouse apartment but finds only Susie there. After he saves her from jumping to her death, she tears her clothes apart just as J.J. enters to find "evidence" that his sister was raped. Now the columnist...
...Mackey is a gang leader. And he is a gang leader's worst nightmare. He murders to keep his secrets. And he saves little girls and babies. He is a criminal. And he is a cop. What kind? "Good Cop and Bad Cop left for the day," he tells a suspect he's about to interrogate (i.e., torture). "I'm a different kind of cop...
Like Mackey, The Shield is a self-consciously different animal. Its envelope-pushing nudity and obscenity--it makes NYPD Blue look like Barney Miller--can be too showy, its sicko criminals too baroquely quirky. But it's already the most riveting player in the tapped-out field of cop dramas, a moral no-man's-land where crime fighting is tough, but justice is the hard part...