Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revelations that President Babrak Karmal was on the KGB payroll for years was common knowledge in Kabul. That Mohammed Daoud conducted widespread slaughter, that the Afghans were slaughtering one another and that the 1978 coup overthrowing Daoud was arranged hastily "in desperation" from jail cells are false and serve a propaganda line that Moscow has long promoted...
Forty-eight hours is the time out of jail that convict Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) has to help San Francisco cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte), track down two killers--a former member of Reggie's gang and his American Indian partner. Despite their natural antipathies. Nolte and Murphy learn to rely on each other. The plot fits securely within the Holly wood tradition of fine escapist movies. A typical Western followed the teeming up of the conscientious lawman with the charismatic outlaw to defeat some psychopath or Mexican general. Inevitably, the two heroes soon realized that under their white...
Walter Hill, the director and co-author, arranges interludes of repartee between Nolte and Murphy that round out their characters in a way that hours of gunfight scenes can not. For example, Murphy is introduced brilliantly: as Nolte walks down the rows of cells in a jail, he hears someone singing "Roxanne" loudly and off-key. Of course, the singer is Eddie Murphy wearing a Walkman...
Nolte can only spring Murphy for 48 hours for his mission. Before they are out of the jail, the two personalities clash. Murphy is all excited; he has been in prison for three years. "Let's go on a little pussy hunt," he begs Nolte, the conventional WASP whirls angrily and harangues the con. "I own you!" he yells, unconsciously quoting a line from Roots. Nolte and Murphy play off each other brilliantly. "I want some food with a nice atmosphere, violins..." he tells Nolte. A snickering Nolte takes him to a candy machine...
...maximum penalty for conviction on criminal fraud in Canada is ten years in jail. The four executives have been ordered to appear in court in Ottawa on Nov. 30, but it is not altogether clear they will obey the Canadian authorities. Says DeVos: "Nov. 30 is a day when you decide whether you are going to stand before them or not stand before them. We have made no such decision...