Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than $120 million, made its debut in 1981. Thanks in part to the car's $25,000-plus price tag and a U.S. recession, sales were low. When the company was near collapse, DeLorean allegedly planned to raise cash in a big cocaine deal, but his prospective partners in crime turned out to be FBI agents. He was acquitted because the jury decided that he had been entrapped by the agents. His celebration was bittersweet, however. Just before the trial ended, Ferrare had told him she was leaving him. They were divorced last April, and she remarried two weeks later...
...self-denial and sacrifice. Each has reason to believe that her children are being victimized by busing. Cassandra Twymon, 14, shipped into white Charlestown, cannot abide the abuse and loneliness, and her bright academic future dims. In the city's atmosphere of strife, her brother Frederick backslides into crime. Billy and Lisa McGoff become disruptive students at Charlestown High because they believe the institution will cease to exist once "TLWC"--The Last White Class--enters its senior year. Brad Diver loses his opportunity to ^ attend an unstructured, experimental elementary school when busing transforms its student body and curriculum...
...stress the danger of the latter possibility, much of the networks' fall schedule is devoted to uninspired formula fare. Of the 19 new shows, nine will feature crime fighters of various kinds, from an ex-Government agent who offers his services to people in trouble (CBS's The Equalizer) to a quartet of oddball superheroes in NBC's Misfits of Science. Comedy, meanwhile, has gone back to the basics: three of the five new offerings revolve around wholesome nuclear families--two of them black--in an obvious effort to duplicate the recipe that made The Cosby Show last season...
...lengthy roster of new crime fighters is, if nothing else, diverse. Robert Wagner is leaden as ever as a high-living investigator for an insurance company in the dreary Lime Street. The Insiders uses a rock score to enliven the weekly adventures of a hip free-lance reporter and his partner who go undercover for stories. The apparent model, again, is Miami Vice, but the show looks more like an '85 version of The Mod Squad. The season's biggest howler is Hollywood Beat, another Miami Vice-influenced show about a pair of undercover cops who patrol seedy Hollywood Boulevard...
...anti- Government hate group known variously as the Order, the Silent Brotherhood, the White American Revolutionary Army and the Aryan Resistance Movement. A 93- page indictment charges 23 members with violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a statute the Government has hitherto used against organized crime and terrorists. Ten of the accused had pleaded guilty, and an eleventh changed his plea to guilty last week; at . least eight of these have drawn 20-year prison terms. One of the 23 has never been caught, and another, David Tate, is being held in Missouri to face charges...