Word: corruptable
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...fine version of the somewhat beefy Ellroy crime novel, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in 50s Los Angeles, with all its gradations of questionable ethics and morality...
...heart of its intricacy, the film basically follows the misfortunes of three Los Angeles cops as they trace the links among the murder of a corrupt colleague, a pioneer of sleazoid celebrity journalism (Danny DeVito, who brings huge comic relish to the role), a shadowy social climber (David Straithairn), who is enamored of underworld glamour, a call girl (an entrancing Kim Basinger) working for a service whose employees are obliged to imitate movie stars (she's the Veronica Lake look-alike), and, eventually, major players in the Los Angeles law-enforcement hierarchy...
...busy social life and, above all, a sense of freedom. I agree that life in India also involves many struggles. We have serious religious, economic and political conflicts. It is a roller-coaster ride, but that is what makes life in India highly interesting. Rushdie talked about the corrupt politics, the poverty, the strife and the poor attitude of the people. But India has also been responsible for many great minds, philosophers, physicists and artists. India's 50th anniversary of independence is a time to look at the silver lining, not the cloud--a time to fill people with hope...
...went unnoted. Today there is frequently an element of police gangsterism. Small groups of police officers share a fermenting contempt for the people they encounter. Rogue cops band together and cover one another's crimes. When all this unravels in public, it seems as if entire cadres are corrupt...
...corrupt people in Mexico were put in a room, who would be left to close the door on them? I do not blame the entrenched P.R.I. or any other political party for Mexico's economic and political struggle. I blame myself and all the other Mexican people who gave up constitutional rights when we began to believe that corruption and favoritism were stronger than our individual voices and the power of the ballot. ERIKA L. MENDOZA San Jose, Calif...