Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Beverly Hills banned smoking in eating places last April, restaurateurs warned that the ruling would drive away their customers. They were not just blowing smoke. Since the ban went into effect, some bistro owners have lost up to 30% of their customers to restaurants in nearby towns that permit...
Crime has long been a topic for movies, and in the late '70s D.A.'s even played a central role, but a very different one. Their job in movies such as Serpico and Prince of the City was to expose police corruption, all the while indicating just how inevitable that...
Aykroyd's Friday is a smart parody and often a sharp instrument for social satire. Tom Hanks is not so lucky: he must represent relativistic contemporary values to Friday. It is simply not a fair fight. And both of them are overwhelmed by a story that unlike the old Dragnet...
For three years Lloyd Carew-Reid, a classical guitarist living in New York City, played a cat-and-mouse game with Manhattan cops. What the man wanted to do was make music in the subway system, hoping his melodies would coax some change out of commuters' pockets. But there were...
Lukas, who was editing at The Crimson the night of the riot, says he remembers Halberstam and his late brother Michael '53 coming back from the Square covered in blood. But 35 years later Halberstam downplays his injuries. "I had a little tussle with the cops," the author of The...