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Vertigo takes this Hitchcockian transference of guilt-from criminal to innocent onlooker to movie watcher-one disturbing step further. Scottie Ferguson (Stewart) is another immobilized hero; the former detective's fear of heights had resulted in the death of a policeman. Now an old college chum has put Scottie on the trail of his disturbed wife Madeleine (Kim Novak), who believes herself possessed by the spirit of her suicidal great-great-grandmother. Scottie follows Madeleine up and down the hills of San Francisco, a vertiginous setting where even the streets have lost their balance. At first...
After Coe was found guilty and sentenced to life plus 75 years, one of the longest sentences ever handed down in the state, his mother became obsessed with revenge. Ruth wanted a hired gun to murder the court officers, but she made the mistake of talking to an undercover policeman playing the part of a Mafia hit man. "I would love to see [the prosecutor] just an addlepated vegetable," she told him. "I mean diapers and all the rest of it...Dead is great. But I do think he should suffer...
Harvard police stationed three patrol cars and numerous police officers at Mass Hall when the demonstrators arrived. A uniformed policeman ran to block the door of Mass Hall as marchers drew near the building and he remained in front of the door until the group disbanded...
...hundreds of others were involved, they ask? The answer is simple: Because the Spartacists announced they would disrupt and they did disrupt. They singled themselves out. A police-man breaking up a riot may not be able to arrest all the rioters, but if someone runs up to the policeman with signs proclaiming that he or she will riot, does the policeman say, wait a minute, I have others to arrest? Joseph Kare
...week's end readings had gone as low as a heart-stopping -55° in Wisdom, Mont. Even the Sunbelt shivered. "This is the worst ice storm I've seen in years," said Fort Worth Policeman Henry Green, as the city froze over. "And I've seen some doozies...