Word: fla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
Anticorruption campaigns within departments are so extensive that one P.B.A. has taken to posting pictures and license plates of "shooflies," as internal investigative officers are called. There are also administrative reviews of many of the important decisions a cop makes while on duty. As a result, says Orlando (Fla.) Police Officer William Andrew Hutchinson, "some cops don't do a damn thing because as soon as they do something they're going to get themselves written up." It's "civil service with a vengeance," complains Joseph Wambaugh, the bestselling author who quit the L.A. force two years...
...didn't shed some light on his or her own work." So, in preparing for his appraisal of Artist Robert Rauschenberg-who is not only the subject but also the designer of this week's cover, a collage commissioned by TIME-Hughes spent a week in Captiva, Fla., as a member of Rauschenberg's household. He later accompanied the artist to Washington, D.C., for the installation at the Smithsonian Institution of a huge retrospective of the Pop art patriarch's work...
Though all these critics support desegregation, they nonetheless accuse the commission of rigging the evidence. Produced by 162 commission staffers in ten months' time, the report based its findings on four hearings (in Boston, Louisville, Denver and Tampa, Fla.), four open meetings (in Berkeley, Calif, Minneapolis, Stamford, Conn., and Corpus Christi, Texas), a mail survey of 1,300 school districts, and analyses of 29 school districts scattered across the nation. But in a memo to the eight regional directors, the commission director of field operations, Isiah T. Creswell Jr., wrote: "In the hearings, the emphasis will be more...
...Captiva, in the Gulf waters that lie south of Tampa, Fla. There, equipped with two lithographic presses, he presides over a working commune of printers and friends, whose timetable has become adjusted to his: breakfast at noon, swim, work all afternoon and evening, dinner never earlier than midnight. "You can't imagine," he cackles, "how many disturbances I miss out on down here." This landscape offers the clue to his recent work, beginning with the Hoarfrosts and continuing through Jammers, a series of delicate sewn constructions of silk, twine and rattan cane. They are without pretension, and hardly displace...