Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crime: leading a dean out a door during the 1969 student takeover of University Hall...
...brutal and unacceptable South African apartheid regime is universally opposed institutionalized racism is a crime against all humanity. In South Africa the Black majority has been more and more insistently struggling for its human rights against an increasingly repressive police system. In this country the issue of our lies to apartheid has taken on a similar urgency...
...defects people have come to know and love in Elmore Leonard's crime fiction are painfully apparent in the adaptation of Stick, which he has written with Joseph C. Stinson: lots of plotting, but no compelling narrative drive; plenty of characterological tics, but no characters whom one really cares for. In the title role, Burt Reynolds has somehow mislaid that cheeky brightness that is the basis of his stardom. His performance is so muted it is sometimes hard to hear his lines, and he has directed the film in the same torpid spirit. This story of an ex-con whose...
...attention waned, even though unemployment remains high. Since blacks have gained more political power in major cities, the danger posed by youth unemployment today does not seem to be mass violence. The peril is rather that thousands of young people are drifting into a netherworld of unemployment, welfare and crime from which they will not escape. Says Frank Slobig, director of the Roosevelt Centennial Youth Project, a Washington-based group: "We are creating a permanent class of young adults who may never overcome the system's neglect...
...education center" outside Ho Chi Minh City that is prettily landscaped with lotus ponds and lyrical gardens. The frightened-looking men, sallow-faced and hollow-eyed, have been forbidden to answer serious questions. Off to one side, however, one of them drops his guard for a moment. His crime, he says, was trying to flee the country; his punishment, he adds, is just...