Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond these meagre marks of consensus, the New York cops--and police in general--remain fundamentally ambiguous in the roles society assigns them and those they ultimately accept. Police are, theoretically, enforcers of laws designed by elected officials. In New York and much of urban America, however, where law-breaking...
This is fertile territory for exploration and no recent effort in any medium is more ambitious than Prince of the City, which tells the story of a detective in a free-wheeling narcotics unit who decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat...
Danny Ciello loves cops and hates cops; he wants to be buddies with everybody, but he is apalled at his colleagues' ways. He cares most about loyalty--loyalty to his partners and to the laws they enforce, though these are not always the law of the land. He also wants...
As the only female principal in a cast of shysters, cops and crooks-and as the agent of their anxiety-Matty might seem one more example of moviemaker misogyny hiding behind the imperatives of the thriller genre. She surely is a metaphor for the seductive, destructive power of ambition. But...
Ciello-Leuci is a man who feels fully alive only when he is at high risk-when, say, wired for sound he collects evidence from Mafiosi about cops they have suborned. But this movie is a moral, not a criminal, investigation. The people he works for have cases to break...