Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duke's disenchanted voters not only want to sweep out the old professional governing class; they want someone to crack down on crime, drugs and welfare cheats. In a time of high unemployment, they want assurances that their job security will not be further eroded by affirmative action and set-aside programs. Duke bristles at the suggestion that he exploits racial fear. But until he offers credible evidence of change, other than his professed embrace of the Christian faith, that protest rings hollow...
...break the mold, Marden in the mid-'80s started doing calligraphic drawings, not with a brush but with twigs of ailanthus wood -- ailanthus being the common weed tree that grows in every sidewalk crack in Lower Manhattan but is known to the Chinese as the tree of heaven. Stuck in a long holder and dipped in ink, these flexible little sticks delivered a blobby, rough line, far from the look of classical brush drawing but with some of its improvised character...
Bugs aren't perfect, by a long shot. They're ugly, dirty and unsanitary. They really don't belong in a dorm room. But if an ugly, dirty, unsanitary person came through a crack in my bathroom wall, I don't think I'd deal him a death blow. I'd open the window and give him a chance...
...Marion Barry get caught smoking crack? Well, then it must have been a racist conspiracy. Or maybe the bitch set him up. Or maybe the devil made him do it. But it certainly wasn't Barry's fault. Just like those serial killings weren't Ted Bundy's fault (the porn made him do it) and those assassinations weren't Dan White's fault (the Twinkies made...
...Channel-at 25 Necco St. in Boston. Call 451-1905. Thursday: Bentmen with Biohazard, Type O Negative and Toxic Narcotic. 18 and over. Saturday: Cartoon Factory with Mystery Jones, Paris, Posse NFX and Mr. Dizzy. Tuesday: Armored Saint with Wrath Child America and Last Crack. 18 and over. Wednesday: Acoustic Alchemy. 18 and over...