Word: muggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every day, remember? But Bronson has never been one to take pointless injustice lying down, nossir. So he takes the law into his own hands, and the fans go wild. No kidding: I saw this movie on New York's upper west side, and every time Bronson popped another mugger or bag-snatcher in the chest the audience gave him a standing ovation. Which is to say that "Death Wish" will cater to your basest instincts. But it's cathartic, you'll say, harmless, really. Tell me about it. "Liz," the slick soft-core porn feature playing downtown, has more...
...policeman collars a mugger on a busy downtown street, but in his haste to make the arrest he forgets to take the names of any witnesses. A burglar is nabbed just as he is leaving the scene of the crime, but while the case against him seems powerful, his loot somehow gets lost in the labyrinth of police headquarters, and he must be set free. A woman catches a second-story man in her house, engages him in conversation, gives him a drink to get his fingerprints. When he flees she calls the police, who refuse to dust the glass...
...that it? Or was it that-along with countless cops, cabbies, countermen and other normally curmudgeonly denizens of Convention City-the muggers, pickpockets and prostitutes who normally infest the area were on their best behavior? To be sure, the lone Wallace delegate in the Texas delegation lost $500 to a mugger on a fashionable street bordering Central Park late one night. Some Oklahoma delegates had their Berkshire Hotel rooms rifled, but as one of them said: "It could have happened in any city." An Ohioan chased a burglar trying to break into his car, caught him, and returned to find...
...largest cities, only Los Angeles has a lower murder rate. Some visitors may be tempted to commit a mugging or two when they encounter New York waiters; many waiters, on the other hand, are the best anywhere. The taxis can be gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then they seem to be driven by surly crackpots exploring new frontiers in rudeness and reckless endangerment. New York cabbies also include some of the funniest, most charming characters around. (Advice to delegates: If possible, look for the oversize Checker cabs or the radio-dispatched fleet cabs with telephone...
...support his suggestion of the handgun's use for self-defense, Ferrara declares that "There are no statistics on...how many potential muggers, rapists, and murderers are frightened away when their victim shows his gun, and how many potential crimes are never attempted because the criminal suspects his victim has a gun." That's true, and until those statistics appear I will suggest that the picture of a mugger, gun in hand, saying, "Gimme yer wallet" and being scared off when the citizen pulls forth a cleverly concealed .45 is a rerun from "Wild, Wild West." The idea is also...