Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil libertarians fear the proposed law could turn every online-service provider into an info cop. "Exon's bill would be the end of the Internet as we know it," says Mark Stahlman, president of New Media Associates, a New York City-based media-research firm. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argues that constitutional guarantees apply in the new media just as they apply in the old-no matter how offensive the material. "The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because no one ever tries to ban the other kind," he says...
...state of mind on the night of the murder. Shipp was among those who gathered to comfort and assist O.J. on the night of June 13. He testified that Simpson had admitted something that the defense had vigorously petitioned Ito to suppress. ``He jokingly said,'' recalled the ex-cop, `` `To be honest, Shipp, I've had some dreams of killing her.' '' Having ruled the highly controversial dream remark admissible, Judge Lance Ito has now opened the possibility that it could be construed as a reversible error in an appeals court, should O.J. be convicted...
...Castro" and "City Hall" represent his sexual coming-of-age as a gay Jewish boy in New York, his rise to local fame at the epicenter of San Francisco's outlandish and highly promiscuous gay neighborhood and, finally, his death at the hands of Dan White, a former cop and fireman who hated everything Milk stood...
...Look kid, I'm not going to bullshit you, okay? I don't really give a fuck what you know, or don't know. But I'm going to torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information, but because it's amusing to me to torture a cop. You can say anything you want, 'cause I've heard it all before, All you can do is pray for a quick death. Which you ain't going...
These words, spoken by Mr. Blonde to a kidnapped cop in Quentin Tarantino's movie Reservoir Dogs, are prelude to a scene of exquisitely choreographed brutality. Mr. Blonde pretends that he is going to shoot the cop in the face to make him writhe in terror, and then, to the bubble-gum-70s sounds of Stealers wheel's "Stuck In The Middle With You," he slices the cop's face with a straight razor, hacks his ear off and then coldly pours gasoline all over him, ignoring his pleas, and light his Zippo before he is blown away...