Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hook or by crook I will put this thing on,"Merriman said
...eventually I decided that this wasn't the best idea. As I read more, I decided I wasn't content to be proved a crook and dragged away by the law, or to flee the scene of the crime, or to die seductively. Even worse was the possibility of fading gently into the back-ground, leaving the hero to morosely slug down several fifths of whiskey and move on to his next case. I didn't want to be a prop anymore. (By this point I also had learned about the other half of a prostitute's job. Suddenly those...
DIED. EDDIE CHAPMAN, 83, British crook turned World War II double agent; in London. Serving time on the Channel Islands for his sticky fingers, Chapman was sprung by German occupiers who sent him to blow up an English factory. He faked the demolition with the aid of a master illusionist and returned to Germany a hero--code-named "Zig Zag" by his new friends, British intelligence...
Jackie Brown may not win over every aficionado of Grier's early work. In Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sheba, Baby, Grier's characters were at war with crooked cops and white power brokers, and with the black pimps and pushers who worked for them. In Foxy Brown she has a white dealer castrated; in Sheba, Baby she impales a yacht-owning white mobster who has been intimidating black businesses. In Jackie Brown Grier's character is motivated by necessity and money lust; she's a bagman for a crook, and at one point a cop turns down her offer...
...scandal that caused his 1996 loss to Carey by a 16,000-vote margin. So his recent stump speeches hammer on the accusation that Carey knew of a plan to launder union funds through third parties and into his campaign coffers. "Either Ron Carey is a fool or a crook or maybe just a crooked fool," sniffs Hoffa. "One thing is certain--he has set the Teamsters back 20 years...