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...year and a half. Previously, an officer either had to see an incident or find a witness to it. Maryland's arrest rate is up 109% this year, in part because of a $150,000 federal grant that pays state troopers to work overtime, particularly on weekends, to nab boozed-up motorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: They're MADD as Hell | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...toughest black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the South Bronx. Newman plays a patrolman who is stuck in grade largely because of an excess of street-bred compassion. When the hard-nosed new precinct commander, Edward Asner, decides to shape up the 41st by launching wholesale arrests to nab suspects in the murder of two policemen, the residents run riot. During one fracas, Newman sees a colleague hurl an innocent youth to his death. The rest of the film deals with Newman's agonizing over whether to report this police crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Conscience in a Rough Precinct | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Because of a quirk in the rules, Harvard could only send one singles entry to Amherst. But that proved to be enough as Bougas cruised past three opponents in straight sets to nab the title. Bougas dispatched Cathy Lynch of Boston College, 6-0, 6-0, in the second round to set up a showdown with an old nemesis, B.C.'s Bernadette Diaz, in the finale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Netwomen Take State Title, Carry Home Singles, Doubles Crowns | 10/14/1980 | See Source »

After the authorities nab Bernard Mickey and throw him in jail, Leigh-Cheri sits in her room for half a year and discovers the meaning of life by staring at a pack of Camel cigarettes. She promises to marry an Arab Sheik, provided he builds her a pyramid. The Woodpecker eventually gets out of the clink, meets her in the pyramid and reiterates the dilemma of transitory love. The sheik bombs the pyramid. The princess and the frog go deaf and, maybe, learn to make love stay. They live happily ever after...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Stillborn Still Life | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...right for the luckless Perrin, he decides to leave town, to remove his boyish good looks and soccer talent from the clutches of the petit-bourgeois burghers of Trincamp, a quaint French ville whose occupants lust for a national soccer championship. But before Perrin can escape, the local cops nab him for a rape he didn't commit...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Pastry | 7/11/1980 | See Source »

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