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Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Blue Lives Madder, “Dirty Harry” Turns 50
The path Dirty Harry (and too many of his defenders, then and now) chose to pursue — the urban policing version of “killing the village in order to save it” — was outdated and discredited even in 1971.
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