Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Law enforcement is co-opted by both sides. Organized crime, through bribery, and society, through covert tolerance, encourage cops to look the other way. But pimps, in return for their largesse, demand immunity for violence against prostitutes, and society demands clean-ups for appearances sake. Often there is nowhere to...
Among the new crime dramas, CITY OF ANGELS (NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.), is a stylish period private-eye piece. Movies have been doing this sort of thing a lot lately, but on television the show comes as a relief from such doggedly contemporary cop shows as THE BLUE KNIGHT...
Window Fall. Ray was a bungling burglar. In his first known job, he dropped his savings-account passbook and Army discharge notice in the Los Angeles cafeteria he had broken into. Chased on foot by police after robbing a Chicago cab driver, he fell through the basement window of a...
The probe involved police tolerance of flagrant offenses in Cincinnati's taverns. One of them was the Clock Bar, a joint that offered free meals and booze to cops who overlooked the flourishing trade in hard drugs carried on there (one report said 646 bags of heroin were seized...
It all seems to be there: the gauzy profile of skyscrapers seen from the Statue of Liberty, the brokers and bums and cops, the lunatic bustle, the claustrophobic alleys and carnival vitality. This gorgeous parody, one of the largest environmental sculptures (other than earthworks) ever made in America, is called...