Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They ordered Berkowitz to turn off the ignition, get out of the car and place his hands on top of it. Having followed the mountains of clippings about Son of Sam closely-a scrapbook of them was found in his apartment-Berkowitz recognized the arresting officers' leader, Deputy Inspector Timothy Dowd. "Inspector, you finally got me," he said quietly to Dowd. "I guess this is the end of the trail...
...have tightened up in two ways. We are building a strong inspector-general operation in HEW, in part to measure the delivery of social services. I have also reorganized the regional offices of HEW to make one of the major functions of the top regional person the evaluation of the delivery of programs...
...With such great responsibilities one could easily become very tense," says Witteveen, whose eclectic reading list covers the Bible, the Koran and the Inspector Maigret whodunit novels. But most of all he finds inner peace in meditation, "turning away from all that happened during the day." Witteveen's parents were both members of the Sufi movement. "I grew up with it. I began to study, and was very much touched and convinced. This is a deep and wide philosophy of life. An important part of it is mysticism." Appropriately among the ten articles of faith professed by a Sufi...
This time we have George Segal as a safety inspector convinced that foul play was involved in the spectacular amusement-park accident with which the picture promisingly begins. The audience, one step ahead of him as it always is in this movie, knows that sweet-faced youth (Timothy Bottoms) lurking around the wide screen has got more on his mind than cotton candy. He is a highly intelligent psychopath who gets at least as much fun out of making the cops look like fools as he does out of making thrill rides even more thrilling than they were intended...
None of the characters are heroes, or even whipcrack detectives. But they all seem very real, as opposed to the ridiculously larger-than-life heroes of most films. Realism suffuses the film and makes it credible. The cops are just men doing their jobs. In fact, the murdered inspector turns out to have been a brutal and incompetent policeman, a man who made countless enemies during his career. The iconoclastic Kolberg notes that he best remembered Inspector Nyman for teaching him how he cut off a pig's penis without making the animal squeal...