Word: copping
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...think the most exciting place to work is Times Square. If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City. I get out and ride around now when I can, just go on assignments. I stop a radio car and get in and ride around, so they can't really be prepared. I like first-hand, unvarnished feedback...
Williams will cop to being eccentric. Anyone who undertakes interviews in a giant pink furry hat and an ISSUES T shirt doesn't leave herself much choice. ("It's a crazy world right now," Williams explains. "May as well wear a crazy hat.") But challenging? Miserable? "Maybe people see my songs as sad. Whatever," she says dismissively in her Louisiana drawl. "Even if you want to talk about a darker song of mine, I still see the glass as half full. I'm coming from a place of empowerment. I'm not being sucked down into the bowels of misery...
...recent Sixers game from his second-row seat, Harley left the arena and pulled away in his company car, a $50,000 Cadillac Escalade. But he stopped when he recognized a policeman who once worked in West Philly. "Hey, you got a slice of cake for me?" the cop asked. "Just remember those old days." Harley laughed. How could he forget? These days the old days are his business...
...potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told Martin Duberman, author of the history Stonewall...
...French tightrope artist had friends carry gear to the top of the still unfinished north tower. On a breezy morning he frolicked on a wire to the south tower, 1,350 ft. up, crossing eight times in 45 minutes, before a cop told him to come...