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...first Baltimore police, who are also members of the AFSCME, limited their protest to a time-consuming slowdown, carefully measuring how many inches cars were parked from the curb and filling out lengthy lost-property reports for pennies picked up off the pavement. One cop took particular delight in ticketing the chauffeur of Mayor William D. Schaefer for changing lanes without signaling...
...however, and connects its evaluation that much more closely with that of Gen Ed. The program is hard to duplicate largely because it is hard to find faculty talented enough to sweep over broad interdisciplinary areas of thought all by themselves; even within single disciplines many faculty prefer to cop out of teaching introductory courses, and avoid the challenge of comprehensive generalization...
...papers to expose the Billie Sol Estes scandal, President Kennedy angrily canceled his subscription. He felt that the Herald Tribune, a Republican paper, was giving undue coverage to a Democratic scandal. "Covering public affairs at all levels," recalls Barrett, "I saw myself as kind of an honest cop trying to keep public officials straight. Now I'm trying to do this with my own kind in the cover story, and it poses certain conceptual difficulties. You almost have to step outside yourself...
...give him the chance to get into any depth. Gittis is a nickel-and-dimer trying to boost himself into the big time. He wears sharp, fussy suits and throws out a line of bright chatter. But there are still times when he sounds like the dumb cop on the deadend Chinatown beat. All this is fine, but it is all there is. Chandler made Philip Marlowe into a paladin. For Polanski and Towne, Gittis is simply a protagonist who has nothing at stake, a kind of genial guide through all the thickets of plot...
...number of other interesting figures: arrogant professors with tenured status in this obscure academic grove, a family of backwoods sadists who rent their muscles to various malefactors, a parole officer (Susan Clark) whose sexiness doesn't quite fit her job category, a good-ole-boy campus cop (Cameron Mitchell) who is a lot shrewder than he acts. Together they almost manage to create a memorable, if not exactly original portrait of petty pretense and ambition in a small town...