Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time in 10 long seasons, Harvard has a crack at those quirky conditionals. More than a crack, truth be told--one more win and the Crimson simplifies the picture considerably, wrapping up at least a tie for its first championship since...
...hard to imagine Nushawn Williams, 21, as the sort of young man in possession of a facility with the opposite sex. However, in the desolate housing projects of Brooklyn's Crown Heights section and the depressed pockets of rural Chautauqua County in western New York, the crack dealer collected female admirers with displays of bravado, promises of jewelry, a willingness to steal a coat if a girl found herself too cold. "It don't take much, you know. These girls don't have much," explains Lakeesha Moore, a former New York City neighbor of Williams'. "He had money...
...brave writing stacked on the bookstore floor, marked down to $1.89--and nobody buying it at that price either. Writers of today know that the nobility bestowed on Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence will never be ours, that nobody bothers with repression anymore because everyone knows that to crack down on an artist is to promote him. Even Jesse Helms, not the swiftest intellect in the U.S. Senate, knows this, having personally raised Robert Mapplethorpe from obscurity. Performance artists who languished for years, underwhelming tiny audiences for practically no money, have been rescued by a ringing denunciation from the religious...
...labor, anti-NAFTA Democrats that refuse to crack, a defiant group that could sink the measure ? and that, come 2000, could make the Republican Party look positively united by comparison...
Believe it or not, he's even worse off the field. Unless you think that allegedly getting caught in a hotel room with a couple of hookers and a nice plate of crack is no big deal...