Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life from the real world. Make that The Real World, MTV's new 13-week documentary series that puts a '90s spin on An American Family, PBS's 1973 cinema-verite chronicle of the troubled Loud family. The producers selected seven young New Yorkers (one a transplant from Alabama) ranging in age from 19 to 25, put them together in a furnished loft in SoHo and set the cameras rolling for three months. The idea was to keep a video diary of their interactions, altercations and (possibly) romantic entanglements -- to see, as the show puts it, "what happens when people...
...curtailed the ability of state prisoners, including capital felons, to approach federal courts with challenges to their convictions or sentences. "It is not clear to me what, if anything, will allow you to have a hearing in federal court as a matter of right," says Bryan Stevenson, director of Alabama's Capital Representation Resource Center...
...Angeles and all it represents to them: gangs, crime, high housing prices and minorities. The place is home to a large number of police and fire fighters. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is there. Even if Simi Valley could not be counted on to yield an old-fashioned, Alabama-style jury, any panel chosen from there was more likely to identify with the four white officers who had held the nightsticks than with the one black man writhing on the ground...
...decor at Pizza Hut became one of the only cultural details we saw that Tuesday night. And, lo and behold, the tabletops at that Alabama Pizza Hut boasted a red-and-white checkerboard under a layer of thin plastic. Commercialism had strangled the South. Give me familiarity or give me death...
...what are y'all doing here in Russellville, Alabama?" the waitress, whose name didn't catch, asked us. She was our age, maybe a few years older. She spoke pleasantly enough...