Word: payoffs
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...Delayed Payoff. Neither Goods nor Bads ever catch the imagination or evoke concern for their fates or pity for their states. The picture, in short, is without human interest-as most of Hollywood's big machines are these days. Since no one seems to care about these matters any more, Black Sunday may well make a bundle, thanks to the technical skill with which it manages its long-delayed payoff. But it is getting tiresome to be forced to admire, for want of anything else to do, the skill with which moviemakers jerk audiences around. It is hard...
...Schachter agrees with other researchers who have recommended development of a new high-nicotine, low-tar, low-gas cigarette. Current low-tar, low-nicotine brands, he says, may be lethal. "You wind up spending more, smoking more and getting far more dangerous combustion products for the same nicotine payoff as stronger cigarettes. Worse, it's probably a good guess that the low-tar brands are hooking millions of teenagers. When I was young, that first Camel or Lucky made so many kids sick that they stayed off cigarettes for good. Now so many brands are so weak that...
...spring of 1974 while exploring pre-Islamic tombs with a young French coopérant -roughly the equivalent of a U.S. Peace Corpsman-and a West German doctor and his wife. In the rebels' attack, the doctor's wife was killed. West German officials quickly arranged a payoff for the doctor's return. Later, the coopérant escaped to Libya, leaving Mme. Claustre alone in the hands of a Maoist rebel leader named Hissène Habré, who demanded a ransom that included 80 tons of arms and ammunition in return for the release...
Serpico. Blood and guts story of the New York undercover detective who was set up by other police because he refused to go along with the department's "official" payoff system. Al Pacino in one of his lesser roles--lots of nice disguises, a crazed scene with Pacino caught in a door, and the crooks inside pointing a gun at his head with the complicity of the backup officers, more blood than a hospital. Which is, well, maybe your cup of tea--much better to see Serpico battling crooked cops than Clint Eastwood murdering everybody. But the bloody scenes alternate...
They played their roles perfectly: dockland toughs, racketeers, underworld fixers. So completely did they work their way into the confidence of the Mafia-backed labor groups in the harbors that they ended up as bagmen, carrying payoff money back to the mob. Last week there was no mention of the actors when 400 subpoenas were served for two federal grand jury investigations of an extortion ring that has preyed on at least a dozen shipping companies in New York City and other Atlantic and Gulf ports. TIME has learned that the trusted men who worked so closely with the Mafia...