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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That does leave a nice question: Is Catherine in her right mind? Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) doesn't care. He's a hot-tempered, danger-loving cop who learns, as he investigates a murder in which she is indeed the likeliest suspect, and falls in lust with her, that she intends to use him as the subject of her next book. But, hey, when the sex is this good, why should he pause to count its potential costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lots Of Skin, but No Heart | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

...then he runs. The rest of Sweetback consists of a few more cop killings, a few more sexual encounters, and a lot of running. Sweetback seems to travel by foot all the way from Los Angeles to the Mexican border...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Sweet Melvin | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

...cop holds up mid-afternoon traffic on Elm Street for fifteen minutes, and a woman leans out the window of her Chevy to ask what is going on. The Bush motorcade appears in the distance, approaches, passes by at twenty miles an hour. Eleven police cars with flashing lights, then the six press vans, the Secret Service, the Buicks full of aides, the ambulance, finally the President's limo and then more police...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: A Day at the Races | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...woman cop better on the beat than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Because female cops are still relatively few in number, a woman answering a police call often evokes a mixed response. Reno officer Judy Holloday recalls arriving at the scene of a crime and being asked, "Where's the real cop?" Detective Burke, who stands 5 ft. 2 in. and has weighed 100 lbs. for most of her 23 years on the force, says she made 2,000 felony arrests and was never handicapped by a lack of physical strength. Burke recalls subduing a 6-ft. 4- in., 240-lb. robbery suspect who was wildly ranting about Jesus Christ. She pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Women Better Cops? | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

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