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Black Mask's early contributors rejected the class-conscious plots and genteel style of the British school of crime writing. "Hammett gave murder back to the people who commit it," said Chandler, who found the details of British mysteries as unexciting as "spillikins in the parlor." Hammett's early hero, the Continental Op, is a nameless abstraction of the hard-boiled ethic: "I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can." His connection...
...knew I was either going to break down and cry, get dangerously drunk, or commit homicide if I went back to Weld that night. So I called my best friend, Mark, and got on the Green Line to go see him for the night. Just being back in my suburban hometown, I knew, would make it easier to deal with...
...agent, Robert Friedrick, is accused of falsely stating that the FBI had authorized Presser to commit the crimes he is now charged with: embezzling union money as salaries for people holding no-show "ghost" jobs in Cleveland's Teamster Local 507. While the indictment of an FBI man was an embarrassment to the agency, the action against Presser had no immediate effect on him or his union...
...pornography and violence. The report contradicts a more extensive 1970 study that disputed that link, and the American Civil Liberties Union has condemned the latest findings as pro- censorship. Dissenting Commissioner Judith Becker contends that "social science literature does not show that exposure to porn causes a person to commit sexual crimes." She and Panel Member Ellen Levine, editor of Woman's Day magazine, plan to file a written dissent sometime this week. A national dialogue on pornography, says Levine, is important and necessary...
...very wise man once wrote that what many people commit to paper is not truly committed to their hearts. The result is a double standard--saying one thing and doing another. Unfortunately, I have recently had the displeasure of experiencing the marked difference between proclamation and reality...