Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twelve years ago, Harrington, 52, lost the Democratic Primary for the same post to Belotti and switched parties to challenge Belotti again. Harrington says he will be tougher on white-collar and organized crime than was his Democratic predecessor...
...same day, another Soweto councilor, Siegfried Manthata, who heads a group dedicated to "crime control," fled with his family through his backyard and took refuge with neighbors after a mob stormed his house. The attackers hurled rocks through the windows, cut the phone line, doused the dwelling with gasoline and set it on fire...
Indeed, rappers have produced songs that urge kids to stay in school and avoid crime and drugs. The majority of rap lyrics are concerned with nothing more volatile than partying and macho boasting. Yet since rap became popular several years ago, many performances have been marred by brutality. Says Public Safety Commissioner John Norton of Pittsburgh, where teenagers went on a window-smashing rampage after a Run-D.M.C. concert in June: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that rap music spurs violence...
...readers realize how much effort is devoted to meshing the disparate tongues of journalese and English. In journalese, for example, the word chilling is an omnibus adjective modifying "scenario" in nuclear-weapons stories, "evidence" and "reminder" in crime stories and "effect" in any story on threats to the First Amendment. In English it is merely something one does with white wine. Reforms and changes can only be "sweeping" and investigations "widening," especially on days when the investigators have no actual news to report. "Mounting" is always followed by pressures or deficits. All arrays are "bewildering," whereas all contrasts are either...
...flamboyant" and "controversial" are not really up to the task. In a profile of a well- known woman who insists that she has lived several times before, one journalese speaker came up with this deft line: "More than most people on this earth, she has found spiritual answers." In crime journalese, the top thug in any urban area is always referred to as a "reputed Mafia chieftain" and generally depicted as an untutored but charismatic leader of a successful business operation. The chieftain's apprentice thugs are his "associates." This sort of coverage reflects the automatic respect and dignity accorded...