Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obscure the fact that he heads one of the more innovative and efficient police forces in the country. Crime is rising in Los Angeles at an annual rate of 7%-only half the nationwide rate of increase. And Davis deserves much of the credit. An admirer of Sir Robert Peel, who founded Britain's nonviolent and respected police system, Davis follows the British practice of running a strong community-relations program. He gets his cops into living rooms to talk crime prevention and build trust. "It's working," says City Councilman Bob Farrell, a black who represents part...
...Wyoming threw us off the back of the land. She erupts in wide wings of earth, shucking off the road like a peel of plastic on an orange juice can. A bent, black ziptop on the unyielding earth. Bare and mute. Wyoming swells to dwarf the trucks hard-panting up her hills. In rust hues the sky descended upon her forlorn tracts, swallowing puny hamlets: a cafe, a grocery store, a gas station, a truckstop, a few shacks, 200 people--all in white; and blistering vacant roads. Over the endless, straight, dust-heaped earth, the van torches...
...PROBABLY started laughing at the loser in grade school gym class--you know, the kid who could never do a somersault without slipping on his shoelaces on the uptake. He had banana peel appeal. By the time he hit high school he'd mastered the art of the somersault and maybe even a cartwheel but when it came to girls he'd usually slip off his social shoelaces just often enough to give the cool kids a yuk or two. Well, losers grow up and when they start making their first twenty or thirty thousand, people stop laughing at them...
...generally takes some basic slapstick and Marx Brothers stuff, slathers it with the savoir-faire of the horny ethnic loser, and hurls the whole concoction into an unlikely context, usually the heroic fantasy world of the shlemeil. What he does is magnify the possibilities of the social banana peel. A Jewish herd blowing a date in the Bronx is one thing, but a Jewish herd posing as a Cuban dictator in bed with a sultry revolutionary who tells him he looks a lot like a Jewish herd she used to know is quite another...
...Admiral," a half-deaf, near-blind British dowager who always seems to be bellowing for an elevator that never comes; and the defiantly gay Princess Bili, whose frenzied affection is divided between an absent Italian gigolo and an ever-present Sealyham dog that "sings" D'ye Ken John Peel? Waiting upon this odd lot of aging Everymen is an equally bizarre collection of German, Swiss, French and Italian servants who trade ethnic insults and intrigue against (and occasionally fall in love with) one another...