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Smith goes on to describe the day-to-day relations between police and blacks in the county: "As it is, the black community has a great deal of negative feelings, fear and fright of the police. Harassment such as police stopping for imaginary traffic violations and then offering the option of jail or a ticket is commonplace...

Author: By Lisa A. Newman, | Title: A Maryland County Goes on Trial | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...voice lines are difficult, and Gayle Moran has the training but not the panache to sing them convincingly (where O where is Flora Purim?). Bassist Stanley Clarke cannot sing well--and on this date he sounds like he has both a head cold and a bad case of stage fright. The banal lyrics don't help matters...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Lost In Eternity | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...kids. To prepare for the role, she put in 50 hours learning how to drive a 16-wheel, 40,000-lb. rig. "It's so powerful you could almost run down a street light and not know it," says Raffin. "I was petrified." But the fright was worth it, Raffin thinks, because the film shows how well women can cope on their own. Her hope: Willa will be TV's An Unmarried Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Staged Fright -- Hallowe'en Disco -- Community Center, Prospect and Harvard Streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: Oct. 26-Nov. 1 | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

...June, for example, a gunshop owner and his wife sat paralyzed with fright in a Frankfurt restaurant as Stoll and a woman companion dined at a nearby table. The witnesses were sure of their man: a year before, Stoll had knocked the gun dealer unconscious and had stolen 20 pistols from his store. Finally overcoming his fear, the dealer alerted the police, but when investigators arrived, Stoll had melted away in the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Trapping of a Terrorist | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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