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Back then, Eddie Murphy shot to stardom as a jailbird sprung to help Cop Nick Nolte catch a psychopath. This time Schwarzenegger is a Soviet policeman trailing three vicious cocaine smugglers to Chicago, and his partner in crime busting is Jim Belushi, a detective with a good arrest record and a bad attitude. It's glasnost with a gut punch -- Communism and capitalism partnered to crush the evil empire of recreational drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Arnold Wry RED HEAT | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...parties in a nearby town. Neighbors told of Tawana's prior disappearances and of violent conflicts between mother and daughter. Mason, Maddox and Sharpton subsequently tossed out casual accusations that Tawana's rapists included a Dutchess County assistant district attorney, a state trooper and a part-time policeman who shot himself to death days after the alleged gang rape. Local, state and federal investigators have found no evidence for their charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tawana Brawley: Case vs. Cause | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

...soon graduated to the Canadian nightclub circuit, where as the Great Randall he performed routine acts of legerdemain. One night after his show, a policeman jokingly clapped a pair of cuffs on him and dared him to escape. Piece of cake. "I walked into the open door of a squad car and got out the other side with the cuffs off." Chagrined, the police challenged him to break out of a locked jail cell. He did, easily, and the next day a local newspaper carried a story headlined THE AMAZING RANDI ESCAPES FROM QUEBEC PRISON. "From that moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Holland's family was outraged. Last week her brother made public a 6,000- signature petition demanding that Porto get the maximum penalty. "Rough sex?" scoffs her father Denis, a retired policeman. "That phrase wasn't even part of my daughter's vocabulary." It had, however, become part of the public's vocabulary earlier this year during the "preppie murder" trial of Robert Chambers, who claimed to have killed Jennifer Levin accidentally during an unbridled sexual episode in Manhattan's Central Park. Last week Levin's father Steven held a press conference to protest such defense tactics. "It's become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Rough-Sex Defense | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

THERE'S an old Monty Python sketch in which a man meets a policeman in a park and tells him his overcoat has been stolen, but he didn't see who took it. Both men realize there's little hope of ever finding the coat, and they stand around for a few seconds in silent resignation. Finally, one asks the other, "Do you want to go over to my place, then?" The other responds affirmatively, and both leave. End of sketch...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Storm and Drag | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

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