Word: shield
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...last episodes of the Shield, whose series finale airs Nov. 25, corrupt former L.A. cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) takes a meeting with a drug boss. Mackey has brought him a big dope deal with another gang--secretly setting him up in order to secure for himself an immunity deal with the feds for a list of crimes that starts with murder and continues the length of your arm. The kingpin offers him a drink to take off the "edge." Mackey refuses. "The edge is where we live," he says. "People try to convince themselves otherwise. It's just...
...seven intense seasons, The Shield (FX, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) has not just lived on that edge. It's sprinted along it, panting and veins bulging. In the pilot, Mackey--who with his antigang unit, the Strike Team, has been skimming seized drug money--learns that one of his crew is an undercover fed. Mackey puts a bullet in his head...
...When The Shield debuted in spring 2002, it was hard not to see it as a 9/11 parable. Mackey was Dick Cheney with stronger pecs, going to the dark side to do what couldn't get done the pretty way. The Shield asked--as did 24, in a more gung-ho fashion--how much brutality we are willing to accept for our safety...
...means. For the new American administration, the goal will be to keep Russia from arming countries like Venezuela or Iran and threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. The price will be hefty, including perhaps a renegotiation of Bush’s precious missile defense shield, but the rewards are worth it: Bringing Russia into closer relations with the U.S. has the potential to further democratic elements within Moscow’s sphere of power, weakening the autocratic elites who dream of Tsarist empires...
...less random attempt at Riverdance.“Legally Blonde” lets a girl have it all. She can wear blue like it’s pink and can have not just the perfect tan and manicure, but also a Harvard degree. The descending flags with the Veritas shield in the last number, along with an almost too-lovely Johnston Gate, was the perfect finale to a musical that strove to be everything wonderfully all at once. An ode to the magnificence of girlishness, “Legally Blonde” may not be Godiva, but for the sweet...