Word: dense
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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For corruption, vice and violence, few cities could match 19th century San Francisco. Opium dens, brothels, gambling parlors, Shanghai saloons and gangs flourished by dint of maximum bribes to police and minimum legal scrutiny. Civic morality occasionally counterattacked the Barbary Coast and its adjunct, Chinatown; in 1875 authorities formed an...
Evenings were my favorite time of day. One night after the village was asleep, the soldiers took me outside for exercise and let me bask in the cool evening air. Sitting on a chair they had provided, I watched as some of the Vietnamese taught the Khmers how to crawl...
Anyone familiar with Scenarist Stirling Silliphant's television work (Route 66) knows his fondness for the stereotypic. In L.B. Jones he has added extra fillips: not only are there shuffling old Negroes sassing the massuhs between yassuhs, there are also satanic, mush-mouthed cops who are rapidly replacing the...