Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They're killing each other, and it's getting worse all the time. Their lives are so desolate, they have so little hope, and they are taking it out on people like themselves. Their parents, some of them, are on crack or other drugs. They have nothing you would recognize as family life, too little food, no future. Many of them are abused children. Nobody cares about them. They are afraid to walk to the store alone, or to go to their friend's house without protection...
...Robinson works to crack the case, director Billy Wilder builds a "double suspense." Wilder transforms a simple plot into a nail-biting thriller. The 1973 remake of Double Indemnity, with a new cast, cannot be compared to the classic original. Neither can Body Heat, a more recent retelling of the story...
...nature of stone goes straight into Mantegna's formal system. It is hard and precise, never atmospheric: he has none of the mellowness of his relative Giovanni Bellini. None of his shapes are fudged or merely alluded to. You see every pebble and crack in the rocks, and of course every line of expression on the human face; in his Portrait of a Man, circa 1470-75, the folds of the red costume have the density of marble, the eyes are gray agate, and the net of lines around them and on the brow is described down to the point...
...crack down on the growing racket, Social Security officials are beginning to keep closer tabs on employees whose personal computer codes enable them to access information. "This is something that was basically unchecked," explains an agency official in Atlanta. "If a clerk's job requires her to access one or two names a month and she's doing 100, someone ought to go down there and find...
DRINK UNTIL you see three Macintosh screens. Smoke enough crack to make Marion Barry's drug habit look like a day at the beach. Have sex, lots of sex, in many different places, in many different positions--and preferably with many different people of many different genders and species. Steal. Covet. Lust. commit adultery. dishonor your father and mother (the best method is to tell them about all the guilt they made you feel as a child). And, if necessary, kill-roommates, advisors, cheerful juniors, people who finished their theses a month early are all legitimate targets. Sin is everything...