Word: smugglers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...swift and evocative mode of visual storytelling. Points are made through looks, gestures, music, artful composition. In one of the season's best episodes (written by Playwright Miguel Pinero and directed by Paul Michael Glaser, the former co-star of Starsky and Hutch), Glenn Frey's song Smuggler's Blues both enhances the mood and comments on a tense story in which Crockett and Tubbs pose as drug dealers to set a trap for a vicious kidnaper. In the climactic sequence, the cops race to defuse a bomb that has been wired to Trudy, the detective who has served...
...aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time to save Tom's soul and Beth's body, open a nightclub, direct the hearts and minds of the natives as they build a bridge they do not need and teach them how to play New England baseball ("It's straight poker, but deuces...
...Cape. Besides the jillions of soft-serv places dispensing chilled liquid linoleum, there are a select few spots that--in price, generosity and yumminess--put Steve's and Herrell's to shame. The best shop on The Cape is on 6A in Dennis village: The Ice Cream Smuggler, where the Oreo is flush with cookies and the Moch.. Chip and Chocolate Chocolate Almond will drive you wild.11Fishing on Colorado's Red Feather Lakes...
...business. Until then, their profits had largely come from smuggling cars, liquor and electronic appliances into the country and sneaking cattle, emeralds and coffee out. Then, it seems, Pablo Escobar Gaviria, an entrepreneur whom Colombian bankers describe as "a self-taught administrator with a genius for organization," convinced Smuggler Fabio Ochoa of the profits to be earned from cocaine. The two took over the domestic industry and sent murderous local toughs, now known as cocaine cowboys, to seize control of the U.S. wholesale market...
Even if "Los Grandes Mafiosos" could be caught, moreover, it is unlikely that they would be held for long. When the drug war was declared, ex-Smuggler Fabio Ochoa voluntarily gave himself up to the police. "I have nothing to fear," he announced. Sure enough, the authorities could muster no more % serious charge against him than illegal possession of firearms. Six weeks later he was released on bail, and the case is now in limbo. "We know who (the cocaine kings) are, and we can't nail them," says Police Captain Guillermo Benavides. "But the worst thing is that even...