Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center. He wears vests, and sucks lollipops in an attempt to give up cigars. The combination makes for one of the more intriguing cop characters on TV. It has also made the show built around the character, CBS'S Kojak, the first new program of the season to crack the top ten in the Nielsen audience ratings...
...money to flow into the war-torn economies of Egypt and Syria, as well as those poor countries, such as Yemen, that a State Department official describes as the "economic basket cases" of the Arab world. Among the beneficiaries would be Western companies, which would get a crack at contracts for steel mills, new refineries and pipelines that the Arabs need to modernize...
...chagrined guard unties himself and phones the Harvard police. The FBI immediately enters the case. The Cambridge police send over two detectives who helped crack the last coin theft at the Fogg. The thieves don't stand a chance...
...TROELL DELINEATES the central, original crack in the innocence myth--the new land was stolen from Indians who were hanged or murdered for trying to retake it. Troell does not blame the immigrants for a situation they did not create ("I paid a fair price for the land," says Karl-Oscar). The Indian dilemma is a symptom of the wider problem that underlies the history of the immigrant experience. At the center of the quest for the immigrant dream is a hollow place, born of the loss of the old home and bred of the sacrifices that...
...heroes crack their cases through brilliant deductions, whereas most actual crimes are solved through plodding legwork and tips from informers. Complains Manhattan Detective Lieut. Richard J. Gallagher: "You don't ever get clues like they do on TV." Gallagher points to a sign on his desk reading GOYA/KOD. "That stands for 'Get off your ass and knock on doors!' and that's how homicides are really solved...