Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Philadelphia has been trying to live down its reputation for racial violence, which was revived by the movie Mississippi Burning, loosely based on the case. Last week several hundred people gathered to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the crime. Relatives of the slain workers then journeyed to Washington for another commemoration and a White House meeting with President Bush, who described the young men as heroes. But when the families implored Bush to promise that he would support attempts to reverse a recent Supreme Court ruling widely considered to be a setback for civil rights, the President declined...
...hottest day of the year, good people can do bad things. Especially in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn's black ghetto where the crime rate sizzles and hopes evaporate in the summer glare. Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is the story of a day in the death of the American Dream...
...redress all grievances, we have a new Batman movie. Director Tim Burton has chosen to make a deadly solemn film about a superhero whose mental state is just this side of psychotic. This Batman does not battle crime out of any sense of moral righteousness. He does it because he is obsessed. He likes to scare the hell out of crooks by dangling them off the edge of skyscrapers. He enjoys slinking around in the dark, vanishing and reappearing without warning in the thick mist that envelops Gotham...
This is comic-book psychology in its highest form, and it seems pretty silly in a two-hour-plus movie. The idea of a twisted, tortured superhero who feels driven by his own past to fight crime is perfectly fine. And the idea of a deranged psychotic trickster who mirrors the the hero's split personality is equally intriguing...
Zorrilla, who quit as DFS chief in 1985, was arrested, and is expected to be charged with murder. Solving the crime would be a breakthrough for President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who is refurbishing his image by going after people thought to be untouchable...