Clip-joint owners risk being sent to prison for demanding money with menaces. They escape that fate because customers are loth to give statements to the police.

这些高消费场所得业主们冒着进监狱的风险向顾客勒索钱财，但由于顾客们通常懒得去找警察，所以他们能逃过牢狱之灾。

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Last week on Clip joint, swanstep saluted faces and scenes that have launched a thousand drips.

上周的Clip joint栏目，swanstep向下雨的场景和演员致敬。

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A bottle of local beer costs ten dollars at that clip joint.

本地的啤酒在那黑店里卖到十元一瓶。

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"They always wait until the last minute, " said Doug Culpepper, a Democrat and nurse, while getting a haircut at the Clip Joint here.

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