Word: hurlbut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unmarked white Chrysler rips out of a gravel driveway. From other directions, four cars race down a seedy strip of highway toward an abandoned gray house. A vice raid is under way on Houston's north side, and alongside the sergeant in the Chrysler's front seat, citizen Dan Hurlbut, smut buster, unsheathes a dark cigar and relishes the upcoming catch...
...city known for world-class pornography, Hurlbut has carved a swath of reform. An executive-search consultant in his more mundane life, the burly 59- year-old launched a second career as an anti-vice crusader a decade ago. He began by leading a covey of angry citizens in stamping out sex shops in his own blue-collar neighborhood of Aldine. He then expanded the drive, harnessing the muscle of police and prosecutors to close nude bars, massage parlors and so-called modeling studios across a stretch of Harris County. Today, thanks largely to Hurlbut, service roads and strips that...
...battle against sin, a warrior is only as good as his freshest kill, and that is why Hurlbut is riding shotgun this gray Friday afternoon during an assault on a trafficker in lewd videos. At the house, tires screech, and officers leap out with drawn .45s. "If anything's going to go wrong, it's in the first two minutes," says Hurlbut, taking it all in from the Chrysler. Nothing does, but the raid nets only a few small-time video wholesalers. However, clues quickly lead deputies eight miles away to a cramped trailer that proves a cornucopia of hard...
...Hurlbut Hall jokester split the sides of about 100 people at the Harvard Square comedy club Catch a Rising Star last night with dozens of home-made quips and one-liners...
Senior Mike Hurlbut rifled a slapshot through the middle and Mann tipped the deflection high into the net at the 13:29 mark of the second period to give St. Lawrence a 2-1 lead--all it needed for a ticket into the finals...