Word: jailbird
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back then, Eddie Murphy shot to stardom as a jailbird sprung to help Cop Nick Nolte catch a psychopath. This time Schwarzenegger is a Soviet policeman trailing three vicious cocaine smugglers to Chicago, and his partner in crime busting is Jim Belushi, a detective with a good arrest record and a bad attitude. It's glasnost with a gut punch -- Communism and capitalism partnered to crush the evil empire of recreational drugs...
Residents of Wigglesworth Hall F-entry volunteered their rooms for a temporary jail, where prisoners were given classic jailbird garb of blackstriped hats and shirts to wear for the duration of their prison terms...
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...Executioner's Song demonstrated, the networks will take the occasional chance. Whatever else may have been wrong with The Executioner's Song, and there was plenty, it did not suffer from a failure of nerve. Did General Sarnoff ever believe his network would show a psycho jailbird decking a girlfriend when she refused to have anal intercourse? The ultimate point of watching Gary Gilmore (Tommy Lee Jones) get ready to face the firing squad may have been right at the end of the rifle barrels, but it would be nice to think that the license NBC granted Producer...
...buoyed by the ecstasy of a three-goal lead, the slap on the wrist failed to contain the horde and the taunts and chants--though not the fish--continued. On the ice, Harvard's famously inept power play had no success against the Cornell penalty-killers, and designated jailbird Brock Tredway left the box two minutes later with the score unchanged...