Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time he landed dead in a pool swelling with the red of his own blood at the end of "Scarface," Pacino had become a hero to the dispossessed. He was the toughest bad guy in Hollywood, and only a wave of submachine-gun fire powerful enough to crack the USS New Jersey in two could bring him to his final, glorious swan dive...
...method of scoring the debate may not be scientific, but then, in personality-driven popularity contests, it's only perception that matters. Which candidate didn't mention any members of his family? Which candidate did not say he personally had held a crack baby--but only that his wife had? Which candidate announced that "democracies are our friends"? Well, Herbert Ross Perot, George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton respectively...
...into an unfathomable numbers war about growth stimulants and deficit philosophy, permitting Bush to portray both men as simply too willing to raise taxes -- an attack that could force Clinton to defend his plan with a few thousand academically sound but mind-boggling words reminiscent of Mark Twain's crack about Wagner's music: "It's better than it sounds...
...inner city someone is doing crack and someone else is preaching a sermon about it. A Crip member warns a Blood wannabe not to clown him and then sells some coke to the fat white guy in the BMW form the suburbs...
...that anyone could, by that point. "The Last of the Mohicans" is incessantly and cheerfully violent, frequently in slow motion. Muskets crack and tomahawks fly. Dripping scalps are brandished. The music swells. A heart is cut out. Two hundred soldiers and 200 Indians writhe together in mortal combat, all on the screen at the same time, By the time that Uncas meets his tragic end, mortally wounded and flung from a high cliff, who cares? Besides, a nice little jig is playing while it happens...