Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Incumbent Anthony D. Galluccio proposed turning vacant fire stations into community arts centers; incumbent and former mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 spoke of a possible new performing arts center; challenger Roger D. Frymire encouraged fighting crime on a neighborhood level; challenger Ian C. MacKinnon suggested encouraging more street performers; and challenger Rev. Douglas C. Whitlow proposed requiring all police officers to live in the city...
...Mayor's opponents then follow this reasoning further, taking crime prevention as a metonymy, a part for the whole. They insist that the Mayor's "law and order" stance simply reflects the sensibilities of his broader program for New York. Therefore, all his initiatives are tainted: quality of life improvements are for the rich, parks restoration is for the rich, tax reforms are for the rich, neighborhood renewal programs are for the rich. I'm just waiting for the Yankees' World Championship title to be dismissed as yet another perk...
...attack on crime prevention, then, has become a vehicle for a comprehensive attack on urban renewal itself. Any progress cities make, you see, must favor the rich. The liberals have shown their cards: one of their new lines of attack will be to simply dismiss urban renewal prima facie as running contrary to the interests of their primary constituencies. And, although the Mayor seems sure to win this particular election, this new argument appears to be an "up-and-comer...
...attack articles and smears in various financier-controlled media, has taken its toll. It has deepened the impression, widespread in the West, that Yeltsin's Russia is in danger of becoming what U.S. researchers recently called a "criminal-syndicalist state" controlled by an alliance of corrupt politicians, businessmen and crime bosses. It has shattered the credibility of the media, which for a few brief years following the collapse of the Soviet Union had a reputation for independence and integrity. And it has damaged the standing of the young reformers, Chubais and Nemtsov. Alexander Oslon, who polls every week...
Noir! The very word sounds like a French lion's growl. In its undiluted form, film noir (named after Serie Noir, a French publisher's line of crime novels) is tart and murky, like cheap Parisian coffee, and as mean as any Marseilles street a gangster could skulk down. These dank moral tales are about the evil that taints everyone--especially the hero, who must end up dead or disgraced. This disqualifies Hollywood neo-noir like L.A. Confidential, where at the fade-out two guys and a gal grin as if they'd just seen Singin' in the Rain...