Word: policewoman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, traditions die hard. Even as a self-proclaimed gender policewoman, I still tend to blurt out "Freshman Week" or "Freshman Dean's Office" if I am not being careful. Dean Lewis does have a point that "first-year" might sound a little awkward, and that there might be a better substitute to the offending word. Or maybe "freshman" is just one of those words in the "who would want to be one anyway?" category--like "garbageman" and "hitman"--that even the most strident p.c. advocates are content to leave alone...
...their purchases, then to cluck sympathetically about her recent conviction on three counts of pandering and denounce her mandatory sentence of three years as a waste of taxpayer money. Fleiss has heard it all. But last week it was her turn to do a double take when a uniformed policewoman entered the shop to buy a sweatshirt. "Listen, I think it's terrible what they're doing to you," the cop said. "I just wanted to tell...
...heavy weapons and are going at each other as people do in films produced by Joel Silver, he of the Die Hards and the Lethal Weapons -- i.e., frequently, spectacularly, preposterously. Stallone and Snipes both play this nonsense tongue-in-cheekily. Sandra Bullock has an attractive naivete as a scholarly policewoman who hangs out with Sly. But ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion. It is also undercut by casting virtually all the psychopathically murderous criminals as minority-group members. A little political correctness in that matter would have prevented this movie...
...simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added Rene Russo as the love interest for Riggs -- a policewoman as crazily brave as he is -- and made a cheerfully amoral movie that cannily caters to and satirizes our passion for cinematic violence...
...summer), with Randa Haines' The Doctor (late summer's surprise hit), about an arrogant surgeon who becomes a befuddled cancer patient in his own hospital and as a result humanizes his practice. Says Bigelow, who directed a cleverly variant vampire movie (Near Dark) and one about a gun-loving policewoman (Blue Steel): "I like to make films that are provocative, that can rattle your cage." Haines, who also directed Children of a Lesser God, says, "I'm consistently interested in projects in which the core of the story is communication and the struggles of human beings to connect...