Word: dragnets
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Roswell's pop-cultural apotheosis has been as an inescapable reference on Fox Television's The X-Files, a paranormal Dragnet that details the efforts of two wooden, underacted FBI agents to expose what has metastasized over the show's four seasons into an increasingly baroque conspiracy between the Federal Government and sinister extraterrestrials--a fiction whose particulars have been cherry-picked from among the wilder theories flitting through the UFO community. Its perspective is offered by John Price, founder of Roswell's UFO Enigma Museum, which began in 1988 in the back of his video store and today sprawls...
DIED. GEORGE FENNEMAN, 77, Groucho Marx's announcer who perfected the art of the sidekick laugh on TV's You Bet Your Life; in Los Angeles. His velvet voice also introduced Dragnet...
...confession. Questions about the FBI's assertion that Ray acted alone surrounded the case from the beginning, including criticisms that the government conducted a sloppy, incomplete investigation. Critics have also wondered about the FBI theory that Ray, a small-time, incompetent crook could have singlehandedly evaded a police dragnet and left the country before finally being caught in London. While Ray, who lies close to death from liver disease in a Tennessee prison hospital, did not attend Thursday's hearing in the Shelby County Criminal Court, members of King's family who hope for a trial sat prominently in front...
...that Ray acted alone--is just too flaky. I've never understood how a bumbling petty crook like Ray, who was once nabbed by police as he re-entered the window of a business he had just robbed to steal a few more items, could singlehandedly evade a police dragnet in Memphis, Tennessee, drive a conspicuous white Mustang all the way to Atlanta, then get out of the country and journey as far as Portugal before finally being apprehended in London. He had to have had help--if not with the killing itself, then surely with the getaway. It most...
That's not all the news from the New York dragnet. On June 20, a man cinematically know as the "Zodiac Killer" was finally apprehended after years of preying on the citizens of New York. His arrest came scarcely 24 hours after the equally dramatically epitheted "Elevator Rapist" was finally put in prison...