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...blamed the shortfall on a one-time confluence of factors, from a jump in the price of raw materials like pulp and oil to a delay in savings from a sweeping reorganization. "I see this as an aberration, and it will never happen again," CEO Durk Jager vowed. The Street's response, he said, was "not rational behavior...
...Pacino's soulful lead performance, Serpico is superficial, even heartless. The filmmakers have done no original investigations, and accept the reportage of Peter Maas as gospel. In their film, no other cop besides Serpico and an idealistic inspector are at all virtuous; Serpico's Ivy League associate, David Durk, is here preening and pompous, nothing like the dedicated, befuddled naif whom even Maas found sincere. And Lumet, Salt and Wexler never detail the reluctance of police higher-ups to listen to Serpico: New York City and police officials are cardboard figures of mishandled authority. Because the film's view...
...David B. Durk, LL.D., Amherst class of '57, New York police sergeant. Your college greets you with the proudest title of all, "a good cop." You expand our imagination of what a man educated here might do to achieve a more decent and a more humane society...
...earlier testimony in closed sessions, Mayoral Assistant Jay Kriegel, 31, whom Lindsay has called the "best staff man in America," had admitted going to the mayor in 1967 with the sordid details of police crime that Detective Frank Serpico and Sergeant David Durk had given him. By the testimony of Durk and Serpico, Kriegel came back to them to report that the Lindsay administration was concerned about possible ghetto rioting and did not want to upset the police...
...latest appearance before the commission, Kriegel told a different story. He said this time that he had never given the mayor more than a general idea of the cops' charges and did not provide him with specifics. Nor, said Kriegel, had he ever told Durk and Serpico that the mayor was concerned about bothering the police by acting on corruption. But the two policemen have stuck to their version...