Word: safes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upset over a rash of muggings, rapes and robberies in their New Haven, Conn., neighborhood, ten residents wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper, demanding better police protection. "It is very important to all of us," they said, "that our families remain safe...
...Whalley Avenue, the site of the county jail. Signed by the residents of Cell-block C, the letter was written by an inmate serving time on a drug conviction, who said his wife was afraid to visit him because of crime in the prison area. "If you are not safe entering and leaving a correctional center," lamented the cons, "where are you safe?" City officials agreed: they increased lighting in the area and beefed up police patrols...
...imagine the consequences?" the guy asked. "In the end nobody will be safe. They...
...ready to be inserted in newspapers around the country. The coalition, which counts 175 Senators and Congressmen among its sponsors, has already lined up 89 special-interest organizations to support its antitreaty drive. Included are the American Federation of Small Business, the Reserve Officers Association, Americans for a Safe Israel and the National Alliance of Senior Citizens. Eventually, the coalition expects to spend $10 million in its efforts to defeat SALT...
...filling out the frame with energetic, emotionally charged-up figures. There are color and movement in his work, and it contrasts vividly with the more calculated and congealed commercialism of current American movie fare. One suspects Pierson was undercut by his producers, who perhaps imposed safe, name character actors on him, asking him to force up the predictable parts in his script and play down what might be more surprising. The conclusion is that you could do worse than to see Gypsies, but that the film makers could quite easily have done much better...