Word: copse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Armed men have surrounded the hilltop hideaway at 255 Ridgecrest Road again. The fugitive, a break-in specialist, won't come out. "I want the s.o.b. to feel some pain," special agent Steve Searles tells two cops with pump shotguns. "I want you to put some hurt on him." Nothing...
Indeed, a cat-and-mouse game has evolved between smoking teens and the special patrols (who cruise for smokers during overtime hours). "They 'make' the car," says an agent. "They see us coming and spread the word." Sometimes the agents double back when the kids think the coast is clear...
Jeb Bush (R) became Florida Governor with ads chiding Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay (D) for his position on taxes. Teachers, cops and the elderly declare, "He's not my Buddy!" The one kind word? A crook thanks MacKay for increasing taxes on burglar alarms.
Washington Post columnist David S. Broder lamented the transformation of journalists from fact-seekers into "character cops" in the annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics delivered last night at the Institute of Politics (IOP).
Blame it on the decentralization of media. The belief in a singular "system," and a "counterculture" in opposition to it, comes from a time when there was a consensus reality constructed of centralized media, personified by the three TV networks. We were all tuned in to the same narrative, one...