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...escape a Mohawk haircut at the Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated by a pair of thieves (Cheech and Chong) who have George Segal the sculptor mixed up with George Segal the actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister Softee truck (Catherine O'Hara) that blames him for the thieves' depredations. Or about Paul's only means of avoiding their wrath, which is to permit a demented sculptor (Verna Bloom) to plaster-cast his entire quaking self. Oh, well...
...part, since that wonderful November Saturday, I have suffered some serious changes in fortune. I encountered my first lynch mob, USA Today went up to 50 cents, and my three "locks" for divisional titles--the Tigers, Twins and Padres--are an aggregate 43 games out of first...
Miami Vice is the most intensely serious cop show on TV. The drug smugglers, mob bosses, psychotic youth gangs and smut peddlers who emerge from the underworld each week are the most vividly portrayed evildoers on TV since Eliot Ness squared off against Frank Nitti on The Untouchables. Even more striking, however, is the show's depiction of the temptation that evil presents to basically good men. It is no accident that Crockett and Tubbs frequently go undercover, and seem to blend in perfectly when they do. Moreover, the show's most powerful episodes deal with law-enforcement officials...
Perot didn't bother with Carter. He sent a squadron of company employees led by a former colonel over to Iran. One of the men, an Iranian employee, incited a mob to storm the prison. They successfully freed all 13,000 prisoners, making it the largest jailbreak in history...
Contrary to police claims, said the judge, the blacks had not assaulted the police with stones and gasoline bombs, nor were they "a mob armed to attack" Uitenhage. Instead, they were mourners on their way to the funerals of several blacks killed in earlier clashes with authorities. Kannemeyer condemned police for taunting the procession and for carrying only rifles and shotguns, instead of using tear gas, rubber bullets and birdshot. The report, however, exonerated Minister of Law and Order Louis Le Grange, saying he had given Parliament a misleading account of the shootings only because police had provided him with...