Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...department decided that Fratianno had outlived his usefulness. The former mobster lost his government subsidy, and will have to live on book royalties and Social Security. For the Weasel, that is cold comfort. "I put 30 guys away -- six of them bosses," he told a reporter. "I'm a dead...
Taxi Driver Marcus Barnard, on his way to visit his newborn son in the hospital, was shot through his windshield. He died instantly. A father and son emerged from a side road with two small girls. Ryan opened fire at the men, leaving the father dead in a puddle of blood. He emptied his gun into the car of a woman and her daughter, killing both. Abdul Khan, 84, was cut down in his garden, dying as his wife cradled his head. Francis Butler was killed while walking his dog. The savagery was as swift as it was deadly...
Just when Berlin painting got hot with collectors in and out of Germany, its expressive energies were diverted into the task of conserving attitudes and maintaining production. Today neoexpressionism, the obsession of the early '80s, has run its course and is nearly as dead as mutton. (Will Baselitz keep painting people upside-down for another decade? Who cares?) But it left behind a small number of masterpieces, some of which are in this show. Neoexpressionism also left behind a quantity of unresolved questions, such as its degree of aesthetic success and its relation to American abstract expressionism, that are scarcely...
...raid on an after-hours "blind pig" bar in Detroit, a scuffle between a Newark cabdriver and the police -- these were the flash points 20 years ago as the summer of 1967 erupted into the Fire This Time. Ghetto despair gave way to grotesque destruction: 43 dead in Detroit, 26 killed in Newark, injuries and arrests in the thousands. By September more than 100 cities had been scarred by rioting, an alphabetical roster of shame that stretched from Atlanta, Boston and Cincinnati to Tampa and Toledo. National Guardsmen patrolled the streets, and a federal commission probed the causes...
...controversial 15 years after it was first recommended by a government committee. Critics claim that longer drinking hours will promote alcohol abuse. Supporters point out that Scotland, which dropped its restrictions in 1977, has found no increase in alcoholism. If Parliament approves the bill, as expected, the so-called dead afternoon will doubtless become more spirited...