Word: freaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Race relations are necessarily going to be effected by this verdict, because not only is a gnawing fear of "tough" Blacks now an acceptable code to govern walking the streets, so is fear of scrawny, bespectacled engineer types, who look like they may freak out and shoot you. What is to be gained by having everyone's fear become a legitimate basis for subway shootings? True, race enters the Goetz case only because society is racist, but there should be some point where racism can not be a justification for action; that place is the courtroom...
...what if the adolescent is a sullen, inarticulate psychotic? And what if he commits murder, not mischief? And what if his crowd, which contains no Molly Ringwalds or Matthew Brodericks and is led by a perpetually jumped-up speed freak (daringly played by Crispin Glover), still attempts to protect him from the law's vengeance...
...bizarre circumstances of Orton's life hardly make for an empathetic telling, but in Prick Up Your Ears, screenwriter Alan Bennett and director Stephen Frears have fashioned a compelling, naturalistic and extremely entertaining picture. What could have easily been a sexo-literary freak show instead ripples with wit and energy...
What do a 7-ft., 6-in Dinka tribesman-turned-NBA shot blocker, a 5-ft., 7-in. ACC freak show-turned-NBA slam dunk champion, and an academic All-America sociology major from Harvard have in common...
...throes of a counter-Cultural revolution, Dewitt did not wear his natty tie and sports jacket, was not chained to his 9 to 5, climate-controlled desk job. No sirree, Jack, Dewitt was a free spirit, a rebel, a long-haired, peace-loving, dope-smoking, antiestablishment, bonafide freak...