Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alderpreson Dorothy Tillman, describing Chicago's social situation after beating a former gang member, Wallace "Gator" Bradley, in a municipal election, as quoted in the New York Times on April...
...girls gang up with a band of rebel 'roos,the Rippers, and fight for their right to have aproverbial pool party. The Rippers, are a cliqueof half-man, half-kangaroo mutants, played byactors with elaborate make-up, and exceedinglyclever costumes designed by Stan Winston. Theyeach have definite personalities. The one who isreminiscent of rapper Ice-T, is played withsurprising depth by the rapper Ice-T. The Rippersare quite revolting in appearance, with scummyteeth and skin like hairy pumpernickel bagels, yetsomehow they're so charming it isn't impossible tounderstand the impulse to shag one. They are halfhuman, after...
...against Fuhrman, first reported in the New Yorker and Newsweek last summer, consist mainly of comments he made to psychiatrists when he was suing the city to receive permanent disability pay owing to job-related stress. Discussing rage and depression he claimed to be experiencing while dealing with violent gang members and other "slimes and assholes," Fuhrman made an aside about "Mexicans and niggers" he encountered during military service. Though Fuhrman now denies making the racial slurs during the psychiatric sessions, he was clearly a man in distress. He acknowledged to the doctors that his work in an antigang detail...
...these people are as dislocated morally as they are geographically ("How did we get to here?" are among the father's last words). Grief is put on hold as they squabble over the Chinese takeout, gang up on a sibling's spouse and expertly rip the scabs of old family wounds. The RSC's production impeccably fulfilled Chekhov's famous dictum that events onstage should be "just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created...
Sitcoms have never exactly been beehives of productive activity. No one ever saw Ozzie Nelson or Ward Cleaver at work, and the Cheers gang spent endless seasons gossiping over their beers in Boston. But even on Cheers, half the regulars at least worked for a living wage. And there was always something purposeful about Norm's and Cliff's drinking. Trying to forget your troubles...