Word: cops
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...Mayor David Dinkins for this week's story on New York City, bureau chief Joelle Attinger walked to a subway stop four blocks from the Time & Life Building. As she approached the subway entrance, a police car screeched up beside it, followed by two more. Drawing his gun, one cop dashed down the stairs, while another warned passersby not to enter. Attinger took a taxi...
...together." He was graphics editor for the now defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME in 1985. Among the cover-subject designs he is proudest of are the sun ("Great Ball of Fire") in July 1989 and White House chief of staff John Sununu ("Bush's Bad Cop") in May 1990. If you haven't already figured it out, Arthur has an inveterate love of wordplay. As he might say: Read my quips...
Ordered to do 120 hours of service at a women's shelter for slapping a Beverly Hills motorcycle cop, she tried to cut her sentence by including time spent arranging a fund-raising party. Result: the judge slapped her with 60 additional hours...
...down side, I'm afraid I correct people's English even more readily than I used to, making me a veritable Attilla the Hun of Grammar. My friends are getting a little annoyed at my role as Grammar Cop...
...economic summit in Houston, the West Europeans proposed aid to the Soviet Union and restrictions on greenhouse gases. Their American hosts privately grumbled about how expensive those proposals were, then publicly resorted to the oldest cop-out in the book -- form a committee and study the problem. The U.S. has a new motto: better to buy time than spend money, and if someone has to pay, better it be someone else. That's why the Germans and the Japanese, with their deep pockets, are particularly welcome at gatherings like last week...