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...family, it's the men who do most of the talking against having a woman Vice President. But hillbilly women stick together, you know what I mean? As my momma always said, 'The thread gets very thin, but don't ever give up.' " A Cleveland policeman guarding the desolate shopping area says, "Ferraro is one hell of a lady. I just wish we could have Reagan with her." A surprising number of people, men and women, talk about that as a good ticket, "combining the strongest candidates in a kind of symbolic resolution of deeply divisive...
...industry's R rating. Crimes of Passion nearly underwent evisceration. This story of a demure dress designer (Kathleen Turner) who is an uninhibited hooker by night was submitted four times to the ratings board. It finally received an R only after one entire sequence (involving the prostitute, a policeman and his nightstick), several other shots and some lines of dialogue were removed. (Wanted: a new rating, between R and X, for serious nonporn sex films. How about an S?) Even now, it is one steamy, and perversely compelling, picture, earning laughs halfway between a derisive snort and the bark...
...member of the President's Cabinet, the situation could hardly have been more humiliating. Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan walked into a forbidding concrete courthouse in New York City last week to be booked, fingerprinted and photographed like a common criminal. He looked startled when the policeman taking his mug shot remarked dryly, "I suppose I'll see you again." The cameraman was joking, other officers explained. "I don't think he was," replied the grim-faced Secretary. After going through more than two hours of processing, including a computerized check of his fingerprints against those...
...Hand, a Mafia-affiliated organization. Back home, Don Vito liked to boast of how he murdered New York City Police Detective Giuseppe Petrosino, an Italian American who had traveled to Palermo in 1909 to investigate the links between the Black Hand and the Sicilian Mafia. On the day the policeman arrived, Don Vito broke away from lunch at the house of a Sicilian deputy of the Italian parliament, shot Petrosino outside Palermo's courthouse and returned in the deputy's carriage to finish his meal. The deputy saved Don Vito from murder charges by swearing that his guest...
...capacity crowd of 52,168 jammed Tiger Stadium, chanting louder and louder as each Royals batter fell. A cadre of policeman emerged on the field at the start of the eighth inning and ringed the field...