Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have seen some crazy things in my day as a Harvard student. Like the time back in '97 when the students held Rudenstine hostage until he authorized the sale of crack in the student center...
...when someone alerted him to the presence of narcotics officers searching exiting partygoers. According to police, when they asked Presley to remove his hands from his pockets as he left the party, he took out a wad of cash, a "a plastic bag containing a green herbal substance" and crack cocaine...
...four-story building. Twice he steered as close as he dared, but, he says, "I couldn't see her anywhere." Calling out her name and getting no answer, he feared the worst. On his third pass, he hurled a hammer at the hull. It landed with a sharp crack. Moments later, an escape hatch in the stern opened and out crawled a weary Autissier. Yelling "Super!" she set a raft in the water, Soldini tossed her a rope, and she pulled herself close enough to climb aboard. Reporting in, Soldini said he was warming her spirits with wine and cheese...
Maybe I'm not poor enough to be an mc, since I never actually needed to sell crack, a la also slain Biggie Smalls. Or maybe I'm not imaginative enough to deliver "Ten Crack Commandments" despite my relatively comfortable upbringing...
...need a screen version of this play to figure this out, but really this movie can be seen as another attempt at a definitive stage version: Rabe strongly disagreed with Mike Nicholas' 1984 Broadway version, revised the play after directing it himself in 1988 and now finally takes another crack at it with this screen adaptation of beautiful downtown 1998. Many of Rabe's revisions heightened the themes of destiny and accident (e.g engineered or semi-engineered, whether Ryan's Bonnie or Anna Paquin's waif), which help point us toward the films philosophical crises and away from the emotional...