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Word: cracklord (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Across the country over the past two weeks, young moviegoers have rioted, fought and shot one another in or near theaters showing a film called New Jack City. The new Warner Bros. release, studded with street clashes and gang culture, recounts the rise and fall of a black cracklord. To some alarmed observers, the upheavals suggested that life was imitating art at a time when more and more urban youths are armed and prone to just the sort of violence that such films so graphically portray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Imitates Art | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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