Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brien, about a female surgeon, is Dr. Kildare crossed with Cagney & Lacey. In ABC's Jack and Mike, a newspaper columnist rushes to help folks in trouble while trying to keep her marriage afloat, a yuppie update of Hart to Hart. In CBS's Downtown, a tough cop gets crime-fighting help from four oddball parolees, a sort of B-Team. In addition to the routine fare, however, Bochco and Mann are introducing second- generation shows of their own. If neither is as groundbreaking as its predecessor, both exhibit a quality rare in prime time: they are unmistakable products...
...Crime Story, co-written by ex-Chicago Detective Chuck Adamson and supposedly based on his own experiences, will follow three characters -- the police lieutenant, a rising young mobster (Anthony Denison) and a lawyer (Stephen Lang) -- over a period of nearly two decades. The two-hour premiere, set in 1962, is in many ways a throwback. The cops wear black trench coats and fedoras and wield their pistols with one hand, cowboy-style, rather than by Hill Street's two-handed method. The Mob characters seem to predate The Godfather, and nobody has heard of drugs. Most of the crimes...
...drug abuse and addiction abounded, the inevitable backlash set in, with a decidedly racist and xenophobic tinge. A 1910 federal survey reported that "cocaine is often the direct incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes in the South and other sections of the country." Southern sheriffs believed cocaine even rendered blacks impervious to .32-cal. bullets (as a result many police departments switched to .38-cal.). Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope," concluded the blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee...
Slowly the dark side emerged. San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the communal temple of flower power, became a seedy slum of strung-out addicts. Heroin sent urban crime soaring as addicts stole to sustain their habits. For many college students, LSD became a bad trip...
Kings and queens may be relatively rare in the modern world, but the crime of offending the dignity of a monarch remains a serious one in Thailand. Deputy Interior Minister Veera Musikapong resigned last week and faced charges for offhand remarks he had made during his country's July parliamentary elections. Campaigning for a fellow candidate, Veera, 38, quipped that he wished he had been born a prince: "I would be drinking whisky instead of standing here getting pains in my knees." To stress his point, Veera used Sanskrit words that are normally employed only when referring to royalty...