Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The cops are helpless, always patrol in groups and only during daylight. Except one. For the past 25 years, favela law, or what there was of it, largely rested on City Detective Perpétuo de Freitas da Silva.
By Mistake. Three weeks ago, "Bulletproof" Perpétuo's luck finally failed. His downfall began when a convicted murderer, "Horseface" Manuel Moreira, got a parole "by mistake" and, once out of jail, shot a close colleague of Perpétuo's. Enraged by the bureaucratic sloppiness that...
By the Mob. If favelados were saddened by the loss of the only policeman they ever liked, the cops were left completely at loose ends. Though Perpétuo's killer was quickly captured at the scene, Horseface was still at large, and a milling, uncoordinated hunt for him...
Such violent, temporary therapy is hardly what the psychiatrist would prescribe. But the doctors concluded that the battlers seem to need "a frequent alternation of passive and aggressive roles to achieve a working equilibrium" and seldom change their ways until a third party horns in. The third party is usually...
Individual episodes in Herzog are brilliant; Bellow can wring a rare pathos out of the most unlikely, unlovely material: scenes of common, everyday, squalid home life, with the kids sniffling, the wash on the line and mommy savaging daddy. No one, in fact, slices life with a sharper eye than...