Search Details

Word: cops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...face of rising protests, congressional leaders urged House members to "hold your nose and vote" for the proposal. Bush gave them as much support as he could, canceling a campaign trip to lobby House members in small groups. While Bush played the good cop -- winning the support of a Florida Congressman by telephoning his sick daughter -- some of his staff engaged in hardball. On Monday chief of staff John Sununu enraged Republicans at a White House meeting by suggesting that the President might actually campaign against members of his own party who opposed the deficit package. When Pennsylvania Congressman Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1,000 Points of Spite | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...with his armed robbery of an entire country. As the U.S. rushed to battle stations, an aide to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney exulted, "We're coming on like gangbusters!" And as it turns out, the commander of Operation Desert Shield, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, is the son of the cop turned radio star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: America Abroad: Resisting the Gangbusters Option | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Says Lynn, whose daughter Sara enrolled at Logos: "My first reaction when I read the parents' manual was that there wasn't a thing there that I didn't firmly believe in, but I'd been too afraid to do it on my own. It sounds like such a cop-out, but we wanted Sara to be happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living Struggling for Sanity | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...COP ROCK (ABC, debuting Sept. 26, 10 p.m. EDT). The police action is rough and raw, like Hill Street Blues. But when a courtroom jury, asked for its verdict, breaks into song, we know we're not in Kansas anymore. Steven Bochco's musical cop show is the fall's most audacious newcomer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 1, 1990 | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...most revered auteurs and, in the end, devastates the great man's macho posturings. Obviously, Clint Eastwood, who both plays John Wilson -- read that as John Huston -- and directs White Hunter, Black Heart, has more gumption than, say, Dirty Harry Callahan. After all, the short-fused San Francisco cop only had to face down outrageous criminals. Having committed this iconoclastic vision of Huston to film, Eastwood may find himself confronting roving bands of outraged cinephiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Elephant Man | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Previous | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | Next