Word: freaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SUDDENLY, PACINO WHIRLS in a frenzied freak-out, pumping his body and punching his hands into the air, a wild, abandoned look frozen in his tumescent eyes. "I don't think I can handle it," he whines later to Sorvino. "Things happen to me.. I'm not afraid...I can't deal with it." But Sorvino coaxes him back to the job, ironically affectionate to his protege, paternally hugging him and gesturing warmly...
...transit freak," he says. "I'm seeing something I care about treated very shabbily--I really dislike watching the system fall apart...
Arthur McDuffie, 33, was no wild-riding motorcycle freak. A former Marine, he was an insurance salesman who worked as a volunteer with unemployed ghetto youths. He had no criminal record. The divorced father of three, McDuffie was planning to remarry his childhood sweetheart. Police officials became suspicious of inconsistencies in the officers' reports and started an intensive investigation. Evidence began to indicate that the "accident" had been faked. Last week four Metro policemen, all white, stood charged with manslaughter and fabricating evidence in the case...
...just left a career in real estate, my own paid-for house, a devoted sister, mother and aunt, and the most beautiful girl in the Smith class of '76, all so I could return to Harvard as a 30-year-old junior. Of course, I've always been a freak. When I got even freakier from 1967 on, I almost went insane for a while; but I soon found out I was not alone, that the world was crazier than I was; being a freak could be fun, and besides, we freaks had a mission...