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Compare Royko and Mencken's nostalgic reminiscences of crooked coroners. Here, is Mencken, from the 1942 Newspaper Days:

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: A Lime and a Pumpkin | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

The Ink Truck rolls to a poignant conclusion, yet it does not show Kennedy at his full spellbinding power. Much of the book is inspired blarney, fun to read and probably fun to write. There are willing wenches, dramatic confrontations and Bailey's gift for subversive gab: "Nietzsche generalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Winning Rebel with a Lost Cause | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

Nor is that the end of this picture's celebration of the traditional American verities. Struggling on against the ravages of the Great Depression, the elements (a devastating tornado) and the wickedness of the unenlightened (a hypocritical banker, a crooked cotton merchant, even the Ku Klux Klan), Edna is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Search for Connections | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Not all of David's jokes are as old as he is; they only come to seem that way when he tells them over and over again. "The devil made me do it" is a corker that had pretty well run its course when Flip Wilson retired it about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 3,000-Year-Old Man | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Geraldine Page excels as the mother of a crooked cop who accidently dies, while Charlie and Paulie are robbing the safe. In her cameo-role, Page reveals the strength behind her character's alcoholic, chain-smoking passivity. And as Charlie's aerobic-dancing girl-friend Diane. Daryl Hannah proves her...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: The Pope Prevails | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

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