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...name deleted) asked me to come to his office to help me rear-range his books. Maybe it was my fault for going in the first place. He has these high bookcases, and the only way you can reach them is to stand on this little stool. I remember I had on this tight blue skirt that made it hard for me to step off and on that stool but the skirt was pretty long. After a while, he got up and walked over and started bumping the stool. At first I thought he was just kidding around...
...curmudgeonly voice that could be coming from the next after-hours bar stool, Wambaugh makes his message clear. Lines and Shadows shows a bittersweet concern for illegal aliens, but the author's most passionate prose concerns the troops at the front. When the shooting stops, he says, policemen are still the most alien-and alienated-of all. -By LD. Reed
Last week at Manhattan's Blue Angel, she squirmed onto a stool and let her coltish legs dangle, ankles flapping. She twisted bony fingers through her hair and blessed her audience with a tired smile. Then she sang-and at the first note, her voice erased all the gawkiness...
...their way of doing business to this country." A fellow DEA official, formerly stationed in New York and now in Dade County, is still astounded by the savagery. "Heroin dealers in Harlem didn't wipe out each other's whole families. They did in one guy on a bar stool," he says. "The Colombians wipe out the whole bar." Says U.S. Attorney Walsh: "Behind that social line of cocaine laid out at a party, there might well have been a murder in Miami between rival gangs...
...collectivization of farms in the early 1930s after he informed local Communist authorities that his father was sheltering more prosperous peasants. Few Soviets today would be likely to follow young Pavlik's example, but there are more than enough concerned citizens ready to play the role of stukachi, or stool pigeons. An elderly pensioner with time on her hands could consider it a patriotic duty to report any foreign-looking types who visit her apartment building at odd hours. In a society where many people routinely break laws against black-market activities just to get by, everyone is vulnerable...