Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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China's ideological Brahmins have cut a deal with the nation's spiritual leaders--as long as your religions support the regime, we'll let you exist. But there's a flip side: Step off that narrow path, and you'll go to jail. "Prison," Chinese priests and nuns still say, "is our seminary." In 1982 China's constitution was amended to permit freedom of religion. But that's not the same as freedom of belief or freedom from government interference. Thus while China has officially produced 1,000 Catholic clerics in the past 18 years, all government-certified Catholics...
...year-old girl from Los Angeles. Chatting from his office in Seattle, he offered to meet her in Los Angeles to "kiss, make out, play and stuff." After months of cyber foreplay--saying at one point that "he was going to be very careful since he could go to jail"--Naughton arranged to meet the girl at the pier in Santa Monica, Calif. What he encountered there was a tiny woman in tan overalls, silver butterfly hair clips and a backpack. But she was, in fact, a cop working with the man who had impersonated the 13-year-old Lolita...
OFFENSE: Set off a metal detector at a London airport, prompting a guard to frisk her by hand. Ross says the guard touched her breast, so she responded in kind. Ross was taken to jail but later released...
What would you give to run onto a major league baseball field and slide into second base? $100 to a charity? Your left pinky toe? Your first-born? How about a night in jail...
About to be busted when a jewel heist goes awry, Miles Logan hides the loot--a humongous diamond--in a construction site. Released from jail two years later, he discovers the finished building is now a police station. To recover the gem, he impersonates a cop. It's not a bad concept, and Martin Lawrence is appealing as Logan, who, naturally, has a gift for apprehending burglars. Unfortunately, the writers have no gift for comic writing, so the star is mostly reduced to pulling faces, yelling obscenities and, when all else fails, pointless juking and jiving as he waits...