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...Crook's action came after Dudley House members complained of over-crowding in the Lehman lunchrooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lehman Cafeteria To Stop Serving Interhouse Lunch | 3/15/1969 | See Source »

Other witnesses were equally harsh. Freelance Reporter Ben H. Bagdikian agreed that children are learning that "the only difference in tactics and ethics between a cop and a crook is who has the badge." He concluded that "it is as though we delivered our children to someone who took them away for four or five hours every day in their formative years to watch police interrogations, gangsters beating enemies, spies performing fatal brain surgery, and demonstrations in how to kill and maim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Industry: Fighting Violence | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...simultaneous images. He deliberately interweaves human, titanic, planetary and angelic, and even divine motifs. When you lie atop the tower day after day, his figures seem to be moving and communicating in a thousand ways. At times, the mere glance of a painted eye, an unexpected highlight, or the crook of a finger clues you in to some new turning of the artist's labyrinthine mind. The bonds between his figures are abstract, of course, but no less real for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Stair to Heaven | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

BULLITT. A violent journey into the underworld, where the crook is a savage and the cop a man alone. Steve McQueen provides a supercool performance as a San Francisco police lieutenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 22, 1968 | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

BULLITT. A violent journey into the criminal underworld, where the crook is a savage and the cop a man alone. Steve McQueen, as a San Francisco police lieutenant, provides a supercool performance that is his best to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1968 | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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