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...agents. Last December a federal indictment in Georgia said that a state police sergeant and a local deputy sheriff were confederates in a 25-person smuggling ring. In one week in February, a Los Angeles deputy sheriff, a California-based DEA agent and a San Jose policeman were charged with selling coke. Says Prosecutor Walsh: "I'm surprised, frankly, that there isn't more of that sort of thing, with the temptations of that kind of money...
...University stated in the official comment that the original regulations would in crease bureaucratic paperwork for the financial aid office and force Harvard into becoming a policeman over its students on behalf of its government...
...group's string of mildly embarrassing experiments--including The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Time Bandits and Jabberwocky --Jones deftly avoids discussion. He steadfastly resists analyzing what has made any of the Python or Python-offshoot products bad or good. Nor, despite considerable hinting from several quarters, does he agree that Python humor has evolved in any particular way since its creators started dabbling in the commercial feature-film world. For him the most important comic influence remains the English tradition springing from the likes of Tristram Shandy, and after that the "goon shows" of early radio and the comic...
...similarly, ordered a Shanghai rubber-research institute to reinstate an engineer who had been demoted for helping a small factory improve its miniature rubber bearings during his off-hours. Wang Ying, an independent fruit vendor in Peking, found herself on the front pages of the newspapers when an outraged policeman confiscated her vendor's license. In the fracas, her mother suffered spinal injuries. Officials apologized to Wang and compensated her for her losses, including her mother's medical expenses...
...generation-gap bridgework runs mainly on charm, not on the bile and bathos that fueled Only When I Laugh and I Ought to Be in Pictures. Jason Robards, the errant father, is as resourcefully genial as a Damon Runyon Santa Claus; Donald Sutherland keeps his dimples flexed playing a policeman who demonstrates his love of literature by misquoting the opening line of Joyce's Ulysses; even veteran Simonizers Marsha Mason and Director Herbert Ross find ways to relax into the material. What the movie lacks is a compelling reason for having been made. Such are the dangers of charm...