Word: crookedness
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These days he looks more like Mick Fleetwood than Al Pacino, but FRANK SERPICO hasn't changed much. Instead of being a nonconformist cop obsessed by police corruption, he's a nonvoting, vegetarian artist obsessed by police corruption. After years of reclusiveness, he's emerging to take on his favorite...
Amidst this maelstrom in New York arrives "L.A. Confidential," a sumptuous bit of film noir set in 1950's Los Angeles. The movie features a cast of crime lords, dope dealers, tabloid photographers, wife-beaters, crooked cops, movie stars, and prostitutes. Navigating this menagerie of colorful filth are three police...
Mexicans have been conditioned to believe the government and the politicos who run it are all crooked because God, or the gods, wills it. I hope the July elections cause Mexicans to move toward a new democratic era. MANUEL VILLAMOR REYES Chetumal, Mexico
Her metaphors can be equine. She has said she is not a workhorse, not a racehorse, but a show horse. She brings up a fictional character who looked "impossibly sad, like a horse's eyes." It is a quote, she says, from Nabokov, and she pronounces the novelist's name...
"If he were interested in politics, I could see him becoming the first Jewish president. But, you know what? He's not crooked enough," she chuckled. "If they were looking for someone who was brilliant and honest, he'd be perfect."