Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lumet wisely does not go the ethnic cross-section route in selecting Ciello's fellow cops, avoiding the one Black, one Jew, one Irishman, one Italian and one WASP solidarity of scores of war movies. The New York Police force, its press releases notwithstanding, still operates in ethnic cliques, still...
Especially in a place like New York, the kinship is like nothing so much as soldiers on a front line. The horrible, griding adversity draws the men together as almost nothing else can, leading them to hate the system--both the crooks and the courts--that makes their world the...
The words spoken in the attorneys' graceful, paneled office come in a predictable stream of self-serving homilies. But the words are not the important part. It is the tone that matters: these people are in charge, they always will be, and they will care for their own kind. Cops...
"We had 100 cops, and there were 4000 kids milling around Harvard Yard," Sullivan says. "There was no way we were going in then." So local officials recruited police from all the surrounding towns and the state, and then held a 1 a.m. meeting. "We decided we'd wait until...
From his debut in the 1930s, with The Dark Frontier, Ambler set the course for the likes of John le Carre" and Robert Ludlum, who have yet to show that they can match the maestro for consistency and endurance. In The Care of Time, as in Ambler's 17...