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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Giuliani's early glory days were the five years he spent as an assistant U.S. Attorney, beginning in 1970. His lapidary cross-examination of Democratic U.S. Representative Bertram Podell of Brooklyn, who confessed on the witness stand to conspiracy charges, and his relentless hammering away at undercover cops on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giuliani: The Passionate Prosecutor | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

She bit my finger. I had her like this, you know, my arm around her head, and my hand was in her face, scratching her. I wanted to hurt her bad. The night before, I polished my fingernails to make them hard. Her father charged me with assault. That's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

He's always calling us pieces of crap. He's garbage. I hate him. When he hit my back, he took my jacket and put it over my head, and banged me against the floor. After that I thought he was finished hitting me, but yesterday he said he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Some people might wonder what Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal were doing out there on a Chicago street, armed and pantless. But Windy City residents can be a blase lot. Says Crystal: "There was a little old lady standing next to Hines, and she says, 'Excuse me, can I get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1985 | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

The original novel, written by coscreenwriter Gerald Petievich (a former Treasury agent) was an absorbing tortoise-and-he-hare yarn about two separate teams of T-men on the trail of the same master counterfeiter. But Freidkin kills off the tortoise (a sympathetic older cop on the eve of his...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Moldy Melodramas | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

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