Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Communists are not the only ones under attack at Harvard. The administration has a history of harassing union organizers (also labeled "outside agitators") and is currently waging an anti-union campaign against District 65 in the medical area. In the early seventies the administration purged the Economics department of leftists...
TO BEGIN, Heywood Gould has created a screenplay of almost magnificent incompetence. He had a promising premise: two dedicated cops Murphy (Paul Newman) and Corelli (Ken Wahl), confront crime, corruption, despair and death in the South Bronx; their turf is so dangerous that the precinct office is nicknamed Fort Apache...
The problem is that we haven't seen any of those people trying to build something and that's the key to understanding Fort Apache's Quandary. For two hours the South Bronx's inhabitants have been presented as pimps, hookers, junkies, dealers, theives, and killers--all of them either...
"Eight of the meanest-looking D.C. motorcycle cops have been escorting us everywhere we go," he said, adding, "We've been playing tag with these same guys for so many years we practically know them by name. I even recognize the cop who beat the hell out of me at...
IN THE STRANGER BESIDE ME, Ann Rule encounters the same jam of corpses and cops. She also fails to make any of the victims memorable. But Rule does have an extraordinary angle that makes her book dramatic, full of human emotion, and occasionally as chilling as a bedroom window shattering...