Word: bushwick
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Hotch made an appointment with a mayonnaise bottler in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. He was frisked and escorted to a crowded office, where, through the thick haze of cigar smoke, he was faced with a group of five men who lounged on chairs arranged around a large central desk. They wore bright neckties and sported diamond rings on their pinkies. Hotch was offered a seat, a cigar, and a glass of Sambuca. Hotch loathed Sambuca, but he downed it bravely. The guy behind the desk, who had hands the size of catcher's mitts, did the talking...
...October, exasperated by the program's rigidity--which made it hard to contact family or go to church regularly--Sanders walked out and spent the weekend at his mother's home in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. He went to his parole officer that Tuesday and was put in handcuffs. Parolees cannot change their address without permission. Finally, his parole officer agreed to let him try another program...
...scene, in which LL hit his commercial stride, was the world's freakiest cocktail party. The liberal humanists of the Native Tongues mixed with the neo--black nationalists of Public Enemy and the ghetto-crime reporters of N.W.A. while LL Cool J flirted with the ladies and Bushwick Bill and M.C. Hammer kept things from getting too weighty. Some of these performers ran out of things to say; most were subsumed by the wave of gangsta culture that swept over rap in 1993. By the time Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle became the first rap album to debut at No.1...
...different ways for Sunset Park --all agree that the center is the social engine of the neighborhood. They remember that in 1978, Sunset Park, though designated a poverty area in the 1960s, had not yet reached the point of deterioration of the South Bronx and the now destitute Bushwick section of Brooklyn. There was still a chance to pull the neighborhood back from disintegration. The center is credited for the beginnings of recovery. Mary Paul and Geraldine do not deny this, since it is demonstrably true. At the same time they are made visibly uncomfortable by any focus on themselves...
...looters, this theory holds up. Of course, right knees jerked as rapidly as the left ones, as some observers claimed that the looters stole because they were human jackals, amoral animals, the scum of the earth. Newsweek quoted one woman as saying the looters were "coming across Bushwick Avenue like buffalos...