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...predicament, the officers patted him down and searched his car. "What are you doing?" asked Colbert, who knew the law. "What's your probable cause to search me?" Neither officer responded. "I remember thinking that I was indeed in a bad neighborhood," Colbert says. "The cops have it rough in the real world. They never know if you're a bad guy, so I figured I could take a little abuse...
...second fantasy, Where the Sea Used to Be, sketches a young man, a rough-and-tumble oil geologist and aviator, who is obsessed with oil--not the money it can bring but the ancient, hidden stuff itself. He can sometimes see, almost clearly, the shape and shadows of a deep-buried oil deposit that once was an inland sea. He meets a beautiful young woman, takes her, literally, in his airplane while scouting for oil, and sorrows that he doesn't have the knack of falling in love with her. The journey of the tale is his effort to teach...
...Devil's Night Out would have done great this year," says Gittleman, a little too unconvincingly. The comment is certainly an exaggeration, seeing that the release was too rough around the edges for any commercial radio station to gladly welcome. The atmosphere of rock music, especially the "ska craze," described by Gittleman as being generated by "radio and MTV getting too excited," was more likely the boost for the popularity of Let's Face It. Devil's Night Out never would have made the newly defined...
...said he was abused by a Catholic priest as a child criticized the column, telling the Associated Press that it was only "aimed at smoothing out rough edges...
...contracts expire and the Teamsters union vies with the UFW for new ones. Chavez leads UFW workers in a strike, and growers get Teamsters thugs to rough-up the striking workers. About 3,000 arrests, 400 beatings and 44 shootings occur, according to Marshal Ganz '66-'92, an instructor at the Kennedy School of Government and a former officer of the UFW. Chavez ends the strike and calls for a boycott...