Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of us have heard or told the story about a first-year room-mate who got terrifically smashed every weekend, or every night. Or we've told the one about our friend's recent blackout, when (ha ha) he couldn't remember anything about the woman he slept with that night. Or we've smelled the vomit in the communal bathrooms in Matthews, Thayer or Weld...
...squad on Nasty Boys should instead pursue jaywalkers or that the cops on Hunter should stop shouting, "Freeze. Police. Drop the gun!" O.K., so you cannot have detective shows without serious crime. But why are sitcoms also menaced by a crime wave that resembles New York City during a blackout? In this single week, there was an interracial team of angry drug dealers on A Different World, a psychotic killer rudely intruding on an office camping trip on Perfect Strangers, and that laugh riot -- a berserk gun-wielding busboy -- on Sugar and Spice. Even when Suzanne and Julia of Designing...
...political scientist. But I have seen people in shock before. Never before have I seen a whole city so numbed -- not Washington in the days after it was burned in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, not New York City after the blackout, not even the Capital after the assassination of John F. Kennedy...