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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Hammarskjöld, Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl 1905-1961. Swedish political leader and secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961) who greatly increased the influence of the organization through his peacekeeping efforts in Suez, Lebanon, and Congo. He won the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.
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“In the real America where most of us live and work, not a cowboys-and-Indians film or a cops-and-robbers drama, most of us strive to get along most of the time.”
The Huffington Post: Stuart Muszynski: Taking America Down the Rabbit Hole
“In contrast, male wish-fulfillment tends to involve badass characters doing badass things (superhero stories, military action, James Bond, cops-and-robbers, etc).”
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“With uneasy calm established and last week's cops-and-robbers narrative at last being intruded on by reality, London, like other riot-hit English cities, can start wondering where in heaven's name it's heading and how to reverse the advance of urban hell.”
The Guardian: London's missing dimension – serenity | Dave Hill
“On the occasion of Film Forum's re-presentation of a smorgasbord of cops-and-robbers storytelling, New York style, the Journal asked some local experts on real-life crime and punishment to weigh in on worthy titles in the series.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Force Is Strong With These Police Tales
“I loved the contrast between the muddle of a real-life cops-and-robbers yarn and the slickness of a made-in-Hollywood heist.”
“A long, tense and wonderfully engaging cops-and-robbers novel set in modern India is "Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra.”
“Maybe on one screen, a shot of a war-zone, another screen has a cops-and-robbers shootout, a drug deal gone bad, a playground fight, an assassination, gang fight, domestic abuse, etc.”
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“Moskos, now an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, deftly intermingles cops-and-robbers verisimilitude and progressive social science, yet keeps his reportage clear-eyed, his conclusions pathos-free.”
“The Town' trailer: Ben Affleck's Beantown cops-and-robbers flick looks legit | EW.com”
'The Town' trailer: Ben Affleck's Beantown cops-and-robbers flick looks legit | EW.com
“I review crime fiction on my blog and it was the cops-and-robbers aspect of TDK that really hit home with me.”
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 (Part 1)
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