Word: copping
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Insomnia, due out in May, is even darker. In it Williams plays a stalker who murders a young woman and taunts the detective who flies out to Alaska to find him. "It's two opposite extremes: Pacino playing a cop who can't sleep and me playing this devil's advocate with him." Williams prepared for the role by watching tapes of an interview with Jeffrey Dahmer--"to get his conversational tone; it was so calm." Death to Smoochy is a comedy but not a light one. He plays a TV clown who, incensed at being replaced by Smoochy...
Army General Tommy R. Franks, commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command, is the Pentagon's beat cop in the world's toughest neighborhood, a slice of potential trouble that includes Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Last week, in his office at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.--decorated with colorful grooms' gowns from Central Asia--Franks sat down with TIME correspondent Mark Thompson. Excerpts...
...flags of their own nations. When even the French are giving it up for the U.S.A., you know no one is going to get upset over starting the Games by displaying the tattered flag found at the World Trade Center and listening, one more time, to that one cop who can sing God Bless America. Or to George Bush's revving up the athletes by yelling "Let's roll...
...accepting the consequences of your actions is morally wrong, and using an abortion as a cop out to avoid the natural consequence of sex—namely pregnancy—is no different from passing the blame on to your sister for breaking your mother’s favorite lamp. In other words, let the fetus suffer the consequences for your mistake—so long as you don’t have to face the shame that is appropriate for your lack of self-control. That is to what it boils down in the end. A woman does have...
...meter’s run out—but there’s no parking ticket. We figure maybe the time spent with the people’s preacher had given us some kind of good parking-cop karma...