Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teeth, knocks her out with a right to the jaw, and revives her by pouring a bottle of beer in her face. The B-girl retaliates by conking him over the head with another beer bottle. A Communist spy (Richard Kiley) beats up and shoots the girl, hits a cop over the head with a pistol, and kills an eccentric old necktie peddler (Thelma Ritter). The pickpocket knocks out the spy by smashing his head against a wall, slugs it out with him on a subway platform and on the tracks in front of an oncoming train...
...Point cheating exposure? My guess is it was with the boys who cheated rather than with the boys who told. In Hollywood's great contribution to culture--the gangster pictures--the audience without doubt is emotionally against the moll who squeals and is with the mob. In brief, the cop who spits never arrest a spitter. By and large, a human being only tells on those who violate the folkways of his own group...
...race settled down into a contest of durability on a track foul with exhaust fumes and simmering with bakeoven heat. For all their high-flown names (Springfield Welding Special, Cop-Sil-Loy Brake Special, Grancor-Elgin Piston Pin Special), all but one of the low-slung racers were powered by four-cylinder Meyer-Drake engines...
When The Joyful Condemned opens, Rene has just lured a rookie cop to her room and run off with his trousers. And for the rest of the story, Rene and The Joyful Condemned tumble along to much the same tough, brawling pace as the opener. Kylie Tennant, a 41-year-old Australian woman novelist, appears to know the sharp side of Sydney almost as well as she knows how to turn a sharp sentence. Sample: "The waitresses were elderly, hard women who carried food reluctantly, but in the hope it might poison someone...
Khaneghah Avenue was a strange alley for Iran's top cop to venture into unprotected. Some of Mossadegh's bitterest enemies made their headquarters there, including the Retired Officers' Association and the Fascist-like Sumka Party. But it is also home to several notorious easy women, and Tough Cop Afshartous had a reputation for philandering...