Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Early's daughter--handsome, flaky Burry (short for Berenice)--who, like her father, is totally corrupt. She is good at dancing on tables and at rather taxing bouts of sex. She and her fancy Manhattan friends, "a club of frauds who think they are the center of the universe," love that sort of thing. Jack, a dogged public-interest lawyer, falls hard for Burry. Before long he is doing dirty tricks for Early's henchmen and bungling them: he snaps a photo of an opponent's "mistress" who turns out to be his sister. At the time Jack's only...
...Orleans cops, in particular, so corrupt? Both the Frank case and the drug-ring case suggest part of an answer. Frank and the fellow officer she is charged with killing both worked in that eastern New Orleans restaurant as security guards during their off-duty hours; Davis and his colleagues were also working off-duty security jobs. This sort of moonlighting is known in police jargon as "detail" work and is a fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes...
...Orleans cops, in particular, so corrupt? Both the Frank case and the drug-ring case suggest part of an answer. Frank and the fellow officer she is charged with killing both worked in that eastern New Orleans restaurant as security guards during their off-duty hours; Davis and his colleagues were also working off-duty security jobs. This sort of moonlighting is known in police jargon as "detail" work and is a fixture of the New Orleans police department. Because police there are among the lowest paid in any major city in America--a fresh recruit makes...
There are always such criticisms (and should be) in any social science or public policy study. But the notion that his ideas are so morally corrupt and racist and that thereforeit is all "pseudo-scientific" gobbledy-gook, and that we can thus rest assured because "real" (totally apolitical, of course) scientists have destroyed the whole idea is ridiculous...
...when it seems ready to take the money and run into the depths of noir, director Danny Boyle's edgy "Shallow Grave" cops out. The film, which has been a national sensation in England, turns into a suspenseful blood-spattered illustration of an old idea: money and lies can corrupt friendships...