Word: crackhead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a crackhead and a glamour girl," says HALLE BERRY, "but never before both at the same time." Such are the rewards of portraying DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, inset, the ravishing but doomed actress who died of an overdose in 1965 at the age of 41. Berry will play Dandridge, the first black woman nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, in an upcoming HBO film. "I understand the struggle of a black actress wanting to do so much but having so many limitations," she says. Berry won the role, coveted by such stars as Whitney Houston and Janet Jackson, by upping...
Crime had been falling gently since 1989, thanks to community policing strategies, a thinning in the ranks of the crackhead army and thousands of new prison beds and new cops. But as Comstat took hold in May 1994, the drop became a giddy double-digit affair, plunging farther and faster than it has done anywhere else in the country, faster than any cultural or demographic trend could explain. For two years, crime has declined in all 76 precincts. Murder is down 39%, auto theft 35%. Robberies are off by a third, burglaries by a quarter. No wonder Comstat has become...
...lewd -- have slipped into (some would say assaulted) the language. Most of the new vocabulary has come fromdiscrete groups for whom a special jargon affords status and protection: students (barf), blacks (jazz, originally to copulate), the military (blow it out your barracks bag), alcohol user (crocked), drug user (crackhead) and the underworld (grifter...
Then again, maybe it's the electronic equivalent of a crackhead lighting up in a Denny's rest room. JUNIOR AN ADDICT? a USA Today story on video games once asked. Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey dubbed such kids "Nintendo zombies." The threat is clear: Nintendo may be enchanting too well...
...school is a graveyard, its iron fence mangled where a sixth-grader crashed a car he had hot-wired. Near an outside corner of the school is "the penthouse," where at night, under a mural of the U.S. flag and the words WE WANT A DRUG-FREE AMERICA, the crackhead prostitutes of Alabama Avenue sell themselves for $2 or $3. Every morning the school custodians splash bleach against the doorways to wash away the stench of urine. Behind the building are the projects -- public housing and empty lots. On the playground, thieves have carried off whatever of the jungle...