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Vice Squad (Levy and Gardner; United Artists) introduces the stream-of-consciousness technique at the precinct level. What James Joyce did in Ulysses for Leopold Bloom, this picture does for a detective captain. And though a day in the life of a flatfoot does not exactly provide many Joycean transfigurations-especially when the flatfoot is Edward G. Robinson -the film does leave the audience feeling like a thoroughly chewed cigar...
...leather firemen's helmets. They played standing up and they irreverently displayed a reproduction of Whistler's Mother when they honked out You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night or You Can't See Mamma at All in a solid two-beat, flatfoot jazz style...
...beach with her boy friend Mario. "We were lying there in the sun talking," she told a reporter later, "when somebody tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Where do you think you are -in your bedroom?' There, leaning over us, was an ugly, sweating flatfoot with a big mustache. 'Beat it,' he said, 'and take off that scandalous bathing suit or else-' 'What do you mean?' I asked gently. Then he said there's a new order prohibiting indecent bathing suits and that I was a shameless girl. Why that...
...Elevator operators in Los Angeles' City Hall were told to stop calling out. "War Department!" for the floor on which Divorces are granted, "Flatfoot Alley!" for police headquarters, and "Ball & Chain!" for the city attorney's criminal division...
...runner, Chapp is much less shifty than his predecessor Tom Harmon, although last year his combined running and passing (for 1,235 yds.) far outstripped Harmon's best total. He is a heavy-legged, hippy runner along the lines of "Flatfoot Frank" Sinkwich, late of Georgia. He is a superb faker and a hard tackier. But he has one weakness-pass defense-which keeps him on the bench when the enemy has the ball. The way Chapp explains it": "You have to smell where to go on pass defense-and my sniffer's not too good...