Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Britain who consecrate their Saturdays to violence. But their battles are ritualistic in their choreographed precision, and the effects on the participants are mind bending as the adrenaline pumps, the fists fly and the boots drive into the sides and skulls of the fallen. "They talk about the crack, the buzz, and the fix," Buford records. "They talk about having to have it, of being unable to forget it when they do, of not wanting to forget it -- ever." After participating in one battle between rival team supporters, Buford recalls the "absolute completeness" of the experience...
Still, any number of obstacles could cause Perot to fade like a cheap suit. Right now he is seen as sincere (which calls to mind George Burns' famous crack, "Sincerity is everything: if you can fake that, you've got it made"). But Perot's feistiness could come to be seen as meanness, his buccaneerism as recklessness. Already some of his (few) articulated positions have been exposed as two-faced; on taxes, for example, he has alternately said over the years that he favors raising them and that he never would. He has played the system to great advantage...
...roust the drug dealers two or three times a night are "the Fury," from Plymouth Fury, the beat-up patrol car they drive. "Dicky check" -- genital search for drugs, done in the open and intended to humiliate -- is what the Fury imposes on the "clockers," the young black crack sellers who retail $10 bottles of crystallized cocaine at the edge of the Roosevelt projects. Why clockers? Don't explain too much; this isn't a National Geographic special; the author leaves the title's derivation hanging...
...pastures surrounding the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal, herds of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, munch on the native grasses. Hyacinth macaws, the world's largest parrots, nest in trees and crack palm seeds disgorged by cattle, which eat the fruit around the nut. According to Charles Munn, an ornithologist with Wildlife Conservation International, the cattle fill a niche formerly occupied by extinct giant sloths, which dined on palm seeds thousands of years before the first Portuguese settlers arrived. This happy coincidence is one reason why humans here get along with the 80 species of mammals, 230 kinds...
There is already motion on the fundraisingfront. Glimp has received "a few" multi-milliondollar pledges, and Rudenstine has been travellingthe country building goodwill with alumni. Nextyear, Harvard's crack fundraisers will be workingto line up commitments for a campaign that mostexpect will be the largest ever in the history ofhigher education...