Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Francisco mansion. Fans eventually repaid the favor: Chapman's last two albums sank with nary a trace. Well, the reality check has finally arrived. Chapman now reads fan mail aloud in concerts. The new style is helping: last week her latest album, New Beginning, vaulted into the hard-to-crack...
...While I applaud Kaufman for realizing that on the spectrum of safe to dangerous drugs, no line can be drawn that puts marijuana on the more dangerous side than alcohol, his taxonomy between hard and soft drugs is too coarse. Although there is substantial evidence that chronic cocaine and crack use cause mental damage (but Blankenship and David were not in possession of these drugs), no reputable studies have ever shown marijuana, mushrooms and LSD to have measurable long-term effects on intelligence. Ecstasy, however, has been shown to cause brain damage in monkeys under extreme dosages (the dosages were...
...operation code-named "Zorro-II." The government charged 29 with conspiracy, and an additional 136 were arrested. Attorney General Janet Reno said the operation is the first undertaken by the Drug Enforcement Administration that targets a cocaine ring's top organizational structure down to the street-level crack cocaine distributors. "It's the first case involving a Mexican distribution net of cocaine," says TIME's Elaine Shannon. "The Mexican cocaine distribution network represents a new trend in the past 2 or 3 years in which Mexicans, who have been paid in kind by the Colombian drug dealers for transporting Colombian...
...movie-based Big and the tap-a-thon Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. Meanwhile, there's a pair of revivals--A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The King and I--to prove Broadway can still dance, sing, touch the heart and crack the best old jokes...
This disturbing phenomenon may not be endemic to the U.S. Two weeks ago in Toronto, Canada, the police stopped and arrested Rubin Carter for crack dealing. But they definitely had the wrong man--not only was Carter completely innocent, but he had previously been in jail for 19 years on a false murder charge. He is the current executive director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted. The Toronto police, who are accused of stopping blacks more frequently than whites, attempted to excuse their arrest as "mistaken identity" and offered to pay for damaging Carter's Mercedes...