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...beginning of this film we are shown a grainy video of Turk (De Niro), who says he's been a cop for more than 30 years, "and in that time I have killed 14 people." The rest of the movie spells out his complicity and that of his partner Rooster (Pacino...
...their decades together chasing bad guys has given Turk and Rooster similar views of the citizenry. Similar and simple: you never go wrong assuming the worst. "I hate scumbags," Turk says. "I like shooting people." He explains that he joined the police force for the badge and the gun. "Most people respect a badge. Everybody respects a gun." After a few suspicious homicides, both men undergo a brief psychiatric evaluation. When the shrink asks, "How do you feel when innocent people get killed?" Rooster replies, "You know, I sorta got numb to it." He's been around too long...
...form drag. Rick Sharp, a kinesiologist from Iowa State University, explains that when a swimmer gets tired, his mechanics start to deteriorate, and the resulting dip in the lower back significantly increases drag. The water, flowing down the back, crashes into the arch of the buttocks creating a "rooster tail" effect. The core stabilizer helps the swimmer maintain good body position in the water by subtly rolling the hips forward in the water...
...American eagle judging the Gallic rooster is a bit like a sparrow that's skeptical about the allure of a butterfly. France's charm is less in its books and paintings than in Chanel No. 5, the banks of the Seine, its café terraces, its foie gras and its Christmas decorations on Avenue Montaigne. Here the first of the arts is l'art de vivre. And if many people here want to do as little as possible and be assisted, that proves there is still a lot of good sense among us. If America finds us intellectually unworthy...
...Cock and Balls: Is there anything funnier than a rooster playing basketball? What, you thought we...oh come on, man, how fucked...