Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Panther survivors of the COINTELPRO operation frame-up and murder what it means to be targeted as terrorist by the government. Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a Black Panther incarcerated for 15 years, for a murder he did not commit, is only now having his case reopened...
These people are speaking from a closed context, a reality physically defined by ghastly blue fluorescent lights and seats designed for no human % frame, and spiritually expressed by resignation. "There's no alternative," shrugs a woman, her eyes fixed on the middle distance. "Jersey is the alternative," whispers a young man reading Great Expectations. Another standee, bedecked with gold chains, springs to the defense: "They are trying to move 285,000 people a day. It's the nation's largest commuter railroad. I'm not defending the equipment, you understand, but it's an almost impossible task. Take the averages...
...more in common than boredom, but it beats sleeping alone, or with Marty. The cuckold is aware of this, so he hires a mean, giggly detective (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill them. The detective has a better idea. He'll kill his client instead, pocket the ten grand and frame the intended victims as the murderers. Just two problems: Ray, not the police, finds Marty's corpse; and Marty is not quite dead. So Ray, thinking that Abby did the deed to be with him, must finish the detective's messy...
...that threatens Iron City: "This is Nyodene D. A whole new generation of toxic waste. What we call state of the art." There are lampoons (if that is possible) of occult tabloids: "From beyond the grave, dead living legend John Wayne will communicate telepathically with President Reagan to help frame U.S. foreign policy. Mellowed by death, the strapping actor will advocate a hopeful policy of peace and love." In what may be regarded lightly as a plot, Gladney searches for the source of Dylar, an experimental drug that allegedly cures fear of death...
...future that was bound to be worse than the past, he retained an uncanny ability to go through his fears and find history on the other side of them. Beckmann's art was poised, so to speak, between the sleepwalk and the goose step; on its rigorous and masculine frame are nailed the private splendors and public horrors of the first half of the 20th century...