Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beating Crime...
...theme of the unforgivable offense reverberates up and down the 20th century, perhaps because such a crime is thought to be more against man-or more accurately, more against the tribe-than against God. Harold R. Isaacs, a journalist and political scientist, observed in his 1975 book Idols of the Tribe: "We are experiencing on a massively universal scale a convulsive ingathering of people in their numberless grouping of kinds-tribal, racial, linguistic, religious, national. It is a great clustering into separatenesses that will, it is thought, improve, assure, or extend each group's power or place, or keep...
...best mayors are those who take advantage of neighborhood activism, he said, citing efforts like the South End community crime watch and the Fenway's arson prevention--group...
Predictably, the staff is divided about the new look. Some describe the Post as an imitator of the Gannett Co.'s national daily, USA Today. In its emphasis on crime and catastrophe, the Post also resembles the British popular dailies on which the Toronto Sun was modeled. Complains one Post veteran: "It looks like a newspaper in a clown suit." Others share the view of a reporter who says, "It is like having somebody let fresh air into a stale room-we needed it, but some people find it a little cold." Advertisers too are hesitant. David Huskey, senior...
...sitcom Love, Sidney, nine years later, that an apparent homosexual was depicted with some degree of calm as the title character in a series. In 1974, A Case of Rape with Elizabeth Montgomery was the first major TV drama to take a composed but telling look at that crime from the woman's point of view. The identical theme was sensationally exploited the same year with Born Innocent, which cast Teen-Ager Linda Blair as the victim of a sexual assault committed with a broom handle. Although prime-time dramatizations of proscribed subjects get most of the attention, taboos...