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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The plot is painfully simple. A Chicago fireman named Jack Moniker (Williams), who is tired of the hustle and bustle of the big city, retires to a secluded island shack on Nicholas. If we were to believe this movie, along with the recently released Running Scared about Chicago cops, it...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Paradise Lost | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

They recognize Film Producer Freddie Fields and his friends in the Polo Lounge, but Fields is a long way from Beverly Hills, on patrol in deepest North Carolina. With him are Australian Director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies) and several indisputable movie stars--notably Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kitchen Comedy on Location | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

It's a story about people who try to be ruthless, but turn out to have soft spots and warm hearts after all. There are rich people who are bad, poor people who are exploited--i.e. good--dumb cops, dumb blondes, dumb dogs and a lot of other classic on...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Spineless People | 7/3/1986 | See Source »

The plot of this Beverly Hills Cop meets The French Connection flick is basically pretty straight forward. Gregory Hines, last seen dancing his tootsies off in the utterly offensive White Knights, and Billy "Mahvelous" Crystal play two yukster detectives from inner city Chicago who spend their spare moments between making...

Author: By Christina V. Coletta, | Title: Running Comedy | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

As local drug entrepreneurs battle it out for dominance, a hierarchy of rock cocaine is being built on violence. In lucrative rock markets like Los Angeles, most dealers' base houses are veritable fortresses, guarded by thugs armed with pistols and sawed-off shotguns. Metal bars cover the windows; steel mesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack: A cheap and deadly cocaine is a fast-spreading menace | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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