Word: awful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eddie Hernandez, 22, formerly of the Disciples on Chicago's Southwest Side, recalls the first time he ever saw a guy being jumped out. "They made this guy walk through an alley filled with gang members," he says. "Aw, man, it was awful. That guy was unconscious after just a few feet." Hernandez doesn't shy from violence easily. In his seven-year career, he's been shot in the stomach, hit in the head with a railroad tie, had his arm broken in a fight, absorbed countless punches, and been jailed twice for auto theft -- not to mention...
Unlike Rollins, whose help Perot enlisted, Jordan volunteered his services several weeks ago after watching Perot on Larry King's TV show. More cerebral than his aw-shucks manner might suggest, Jordan went to work for Carter in the late 1960s and drafted the 1972 memo that served as the blueprint for Carter's march from Georgian obscurity to the White House. Carter's campaign as an ) outsider running against Washington in 1976, notes his longtime friend Bert Lance, is reminiscent of Perot's pose as a new broom unsullied by politics...
...somebody "insensitive"? Aw, for heaven's sakes, let the sensors apologize, let the sensors suck it up, and let's all get on with our lives. Name-calling and resignation demands and I-said-you-saids aren't going to make anyone feel any better...
...RISKS OF SUCH A TITLE are apparent," the catalog of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art prissily begins, " -- that the grisly and gruesome Charles Manson murders would be glorified, that the show would seem to be about the sixties . . ." Aw, c'mon, just because we call an exhibition "Helter Skelter," you wouldn't necessarily think better of Charlie aging away there in maximum security, would you? A pity the curator in question, Paul Schimmel, won't come out with it: We want a lurid title but, hey, we're a museum. Maybe we need a bit of sensationalism...
...lying, and lying stupidly, fulfilling any juror's suspicions about the boxer's brutality. Notes Garrison: "You couldn't look at this delicate little thing and imagine her having Mike Tyson say, 'Hey, I want to f--- you,' and her saying, 'Sure, call me.' You just said, 'Aw, come...