Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White interviewed crime victims' relatives, police officers and academics in New York and other Eastern cities. In Chicago, Correspondent Don Winbush reported from neighborhoods afflicted by youth-gang violence. He observes, "All around me were decent, hardworking, caring, strong-willed people. How could senseless, callous acts of violence erupt so frequently...
Retired Mobster Joe Bonanno had no qualms about discussing his life as "a man of honor" in his 1983 autobiography of that name. But when U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani wanted Bonanno to talk about eleven alleged mobsters who rule New York City's crime families, the self-confessed capo clammed up. Bonanno, 80, who now lives in Tucson, suffers from high blood pressure and a narrowing of the coronary arteries. He claimed that the stress of testifying against his old associates could kill...
...Harvard to give a talk to the Conservative Club, and in the process sparked an divestment protest and rally which turned unusually violent. Hoppenstein was asked by the College body charged with disciplining the students involved in the protest-turned-blockade to return to the scene of the alleged crime, not to talk politics, but to discuss his version of the incident, in which about 200 students blocked his exit from Lowell House. Hoppenstein, however, declined the invitation, saying that he did not "want to get involved in domestic [University] matters...
...skulls on a north Cambridge street. The skulls, found in a plastic bag about a quarter mile from Porter Square, were partially caked with wax. After several weeks of investigation, police officials determined that the skulls were most likely part of some ritual service and unrelated to any crime...
...artist. It evokes in brilliant detail the aggressive and sadistic side of Schwitters' lost oeuvre, which was grandiose and trashy but done with constructivist precision. One of his avant-garde friends, on first viewing the Merzbau's bizarre grottoes and columns (which included such elegancies as a "Sex-Crime Cavern" and a bottle of the artist's urine with artificial flowers in it), thought it "a kind of fecal smearing--a sick and sickening relapse." Would it look so violent today? Perhaps not, but certainly the Schwitters placed before us on the walls of MOMA is a different creature, edited...