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...Kojak episode? A clip from Hill Street Blues? No, the dramatic scene is a real confession on videotape. It is one that may be repeated 500 times this year by the district attorney's office in The Bronx. The technique has resulted in a guilty-plea rate of 85% and a conviction rate of almost 100%. And New York City is not alone. Taped confessions are the latest tools of enterprising law-enforcement agencies around the country...
...warranty for maintenance and repair costs on all of its cars. Chrysler's warranty, which is good for five years or 50,000 miles, helped boost sales 4.8%. To promote these gimmicks, the companies launched costly advertising campaigns. It became almost impossible to watch television without hearing Telly (Kojak) Savalas hawk Fords or Chrysler's Iacocca growl: "If you can find a better...
some playing Kojak, some Fidel Castro...
...object of all this controversy is a taut, trim man of 55, whose shaven skull and steel-rimmed spectacles give him a remarkable resemblance to Telly Savalas playing Kojak. On one of his periodic forays to the U.S., a week ago, Foucault appeared in the brick-and-glass Davidson Conference Center of the University of Southern California to participate in a three-day symposium on himself. As usual the hall overflowed with students and professors trying to unravel the mysteries of "panoptic discourse," "bio-power" and other matters raised in Foucault's intricately argued and opaquely written works...
THERE SAT the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, looking as helpless as Kojak without his Tootsie Pop. On his left, the Dean of Students of Harvard College, as forlorn as Charlie without his Angels. And above both of them towered the Dean of Harvard College, an elongated J.R. who'd just spent $2.5 million digging a dry well...