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...existentialism. It is a circle of sheltering darkness, where the time is always 'round midnight, the mood is always accepting (it's not why you play but how you play that counts), and even agents and club owners are basically benign. Trouble is always an intruder from outside -- a narc obsessed with pinning bad raps on musicians, society ladies slumming, rock 'n' roll making rude noises on the periphery -- attacking the soul when it is restlessly idling between gigs. Bird, for all his troubles, is a wonderfully attractive figure, delighting in the lilt of big words and fine phrases, turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More Than One Note at a Time BIRD Directed | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...group, an annual Barrow foot race. She is 54. She has a 24-year-old husband. His name is Juan Ramirez, but everyone calls him Chico. "This is the best of my four marriages," she says. She has a 30-year-old son in Anchorage-"He's a narc"-and a 29-year-old son in Barrow, a driver for one of her firms. "They think Chico's a neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alaska: Where the Chili Is Chilly | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...narc irks some Vermonters

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Profile | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...friend who wanted to buy cocaine. Says Sandberg: "The absolute worst happened. One of the men recognized her as a narcotics cop." After she left, Watson's keen undercover instincts saved him: he had just met the woman, he claimed, laughing, and had no idea she was a narc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A True Prince off the City | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...early '70s when narcotics traffic from Mexico increased, he reluctantly became a "narc." For about five years, Lawrence and a select team stalked the desert like a posse out of the Old West. They seized millions of dollars' worth of drugs and airplanes, and scores of smugglers who had figured the harsh, 13,000-sq.-mi. wastes of the desert could serve as a safe private landing field. In one successful two-week camp-out near a remote airstrip, his team bagged a DC-10, two tons of marijuana, a four-wheel-drive truck and four smugglers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Tracks in the Desert | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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