Word: crookedness
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CROOKED HEARTS
Confronted by the often bewildering requirements of the bill, many illegal aliens have been suckered into fly-by-night scams hatched by crooked self-styled "visa consultants" and "immigration counselors." In East Palo Alto, Calif., Alejandra, a 20-year-old Mexican college student who has been living in the U.S...
AFTER SEEING Blind Date, I finally understood that Bruce Willis' irresistable charm comes from his cosmic ordinariness: he seems like just an average guy trying to get from A to B. Women want to straighten out his ever-crooked tie, men want to share a few rounds of beer with...
It remains to be seen, however, whether the new programs will have much appeal for a crime-wary public and law-enforcement establishment. That prison time can be harrowing is to some minds its first merit. The living-room sofa is by comparison a painless instrument of remorse. "Until the...
Most satisfying, the new mystery is often about some specific time or place or profession, whether it is Loren D. Estleman's seedy Detroit or William Marshall's nightmare vision of Hong Kong, Tony Hillerman's half-mystical, half-modern Navajo reservation or Jonathan Gash's crooked fringe of the...