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...part of this Court to cut back on Fourth Amendment rights," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "In the 1960s and '70s, search and seizure rights were expanded considerably, and now, the conservative majority feels that protection has gone too far." And since many law-abiding citizens would probably hightail it out of a potentially dangerous situation or neighborhood, this ruling may open the door for a lot of unwarranted stop-and-search episodes. "This isn't like looking for blood dripping out of a car trunk," says Cohen. "Even innocent people run for a lot of reasons - including fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Good Reason to Avoid Crime Scenes... | 1/12/2000 | See Source »

...tender courtship of a man of faith: "Oh, she wasn't my wife at the time, just another cute nurse with a great set of tits and an ass a man could get lost in. Jesus brought us together. Then he told us to get married and hightail it the fuck out of Alaska...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...team then gets four uninterrupted days to try and scramble home if they so desire and then must hightail it back to campus for their tournament in New Orleans on December 27th and 28th...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: If It's Friday, It Must Be Duluth | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Wild at Heart begins with the moody Sailor (Nicolas Cage) bashing a black man's head into pulp. And Sailor is the good guy in this storm-sky fresco of two crazy kids on the run. Sailor and his girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) hightail it to New Orleans and Texas, where they encounter fat-lady porn stars and a slick psychopath (Willem Dafoe) who loses his head, literally and spectacularly, in a bank heist. To Barry Gifford's source novel Lynch adds a murder plot, an Elvis impersonation, a few torture scenes, a drug cartel, some cockroaches and a happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wizard Of Odd | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...bulldog. The 2000 people who attempted to occupy Seabrook--the archtypal confrontation between the cooperative, consensual, eco-conscious, non-violent Clams and the high-tech nuclear death merchants backed by the legal violence of the state--may have sung songs of love and Oneness, but they were forced to hightail it back through the marshes just the same. Right does not make might. The meek shall inherit the shaft. A miracle is the only hope...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: The Gospel of a Dawning Age? | 5/7/1980 | See Source »

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