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...violence is often absurdly out of proportion to the take. "They'll knock out a $400 window for a box of paper clips. They'll kill you for your belt buckle," says Patrolman Dennis Hansen. "They have no value system-zero." Drug dealing is so blatant that a visiting city councilman and plainclothes policeman were solicited at their car windows. Young Cuban entrepreneurs drop plastic Baggies of "Mexican brown" from their hotel fire escapes to accomplices in the street. Heroin, packaged in balloons, is hawked in the park like soda...
...Lawyers in Love, the lyrics are much more relaxed, the titles of the songs (Tender Is the Night, Knock on Any Door) either evoke bleary late shows on all-night movie channels or, as in Downtown, deliberately call up echoes of old songs for purposes of dramatic contrast...
...statute is the only one of its kind in the U.S. Sergeant Bob Stocksdale of the state police's narcotics division is hopeful. "We're glad to see this law," he says. "If you get the narcotics dealer in the wallet, that will knock him down. But we just flat don't know yet how, or if, it will work...
...meetings with close aides, Kennedy used profanity, which his library archivists did not delete. He occasionally exclaimed, "Christ!" or "God!" Like most Presidents, J.F.K. was keenly concerned about press play. He suggested to aides that maybe they ought to "knock down" an unfavorable story by the New York Times's James Reston, adding, "That's just kicking that Reston right in the balls...
...rest of Psycho II, it has a certain sly wit about it. Indeed, there is a rather good-na tured air about this not overly scary pic ture, which pays homage to Hitchcock's most famous (but not best) work without trying either to rip it off or knock...