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...meaner locale, such on-the-job training might have led to disaster. Happily, Wilkinson's experiences yielded up a good book instead. Midnights is both a comedy of errors and an affectionate portrait of small-town police, those beleaguered souls charged with the task of keeping their neighbors in line. During Wilkinson's inaugural night on the beat, his partner says: "The first six months were murder for me. After that, when I found out the people I thought were my friends weren't really my friends, I felt better...
...whole event seemed something of a throwback to a meaner time, particularly all the advance rhetoric about the old black-and-white argument. But afterward, Holmes spoke nicely on the "Great White Hope" subject too. "I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish," Holmes said. "I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head...
That big blond cowboy with the evil grin is Ramrod (Wings Hauser), who manages a stable of prostitutes. He says he loves them, often he beats them, sometimes they die. Tonight, Ramrod is feeling meaner than usual. Seems that Princess (Season Hubley), the proverbial whore with a heart of depreciated gold, has set him up for the boys in blue. Time she was taught a fatal lesson, if Ramrod can just find her. And he will, using all the resources of his psychopathy-unless the vice squad finds him first...
There has been no revenge exacted for generations, but the collective arsenals seem undiminished. Dutch owns ten guns; his brother Elliott, who Dutch says was once "meaner than a striped snake," has 18. Belle has a .38, and another Hatfield, nearly 80, keeps a revolver in his office. When the mood strikes him, he swivels and fires into a stack of books in the corner. The people of the valley know from experience that some folks have a native wildness that is not to be trifled with. Even smiling, gracious Belle has a measure of congenital menace. Says her cousin...
...crisis of overcrowding spawns riots and meaner convicts...