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Cambridge City Council member William H. Walsh is an experienced, calculating crook. This opinion comes from 11 of his peers who happened of be on the jury of the U.S District Court. They convicted Walsh of 41 out of 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy. We ask the same question that Malcolm L. Kaufman of the Cambridge Tenants Union posed: "How bizarre would it be for him to still have his seat and be in jail...
...thinks it's unfair to single out weight lifting as criminal empowerment. "What's the difference," he asks, "between allowing them to get big muscles or letting them do aerobics so they can snatch purses and run faster?" The inmates themselves chuckle at the notion that biceps are a crook's best friends. Says prisoner Philip Shaw, 31, who resorts to 1,000 push-ups a day when he's not allowed in the gym: "You don't go into a bank and flex your muscles and say, 'Give me your money...
...suspended for about 20 minutes to accommodate a folksy dance number and a comic song in which the only joke is that a fisherman smells like fish. The action alternates between aimless divertissement and melodrama for an overblown three hours. At the end, the central character -- a petty crook named Billy Bigelow (Hayden) who kills himself rather than face capture by the police -- returns to earth as a prospective angel to save his adolescent daughter from a fate like his own. The girl's only apparent sin is to dance sexily in a ballet that implies the loss...
...leaving the money for payoffs where it could not be traced, and one of his listeners remarking plaintively that Mitchell ought to know how to find somebody skilled in money laundering? The onetime chief law-enforcement officer of the country being mentioned as a conduit to recruit a successful crook! What comparison can be drawn between that and meetings concerning the Madison investigation between Treasury officers and White House aides that some commentators doubt can be considered improper...
...Whether playing a high-class crook in The Thomas Crowm Affair or tooling around on a dirt bike, the cool-as-crushed-ice (Steve McQueen) knew how to wear clothes." -- GQ, introduction to a story on McQueen-inspired attire