Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nelson says she now edits the "Gang of Nine"--the name of the paper's professor-rankling humor section--more carefully than it has ever been. "Things border on being funny and mean. And [professors are] sensitive, it can make certain people, certain professors angry," Nelson says. "So if I see something that is offensive I don't hesitate to do something about it, to err on the side of caution...
...elegant dresser, a man who spoke perfect English and claimed to hold degrees in physics and mathematics from Canadian universities -- while still believing fervently in voodoo -- and, so he said, a onetime diplomat with the Haitian mission to the United Nations. He was also the head of a gang of thugs unusually vicious even by Haitian standards, the FRAPH. Those letters are the initials of the French words for Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, but to most Haitians they stand for murder, torture and beatings...
Pulp Fiction is Tarantino's show-and-tell extravaganza. It towers over the year's other movies as majestically and menacingly as a gang lord at a preschool. It dares Hollywood films to be this smart about going this far. If good directors accept Tarantino's implicit challenge, the movie theater could again be a great place to live...
...interviews that she conducted with Los Angeles residents of every race and economic class after the city's devastating riot in 1992. Onstage Smith employs her formidable talent for mimicry to portray such characters as Reginald Denny, the white truck driver who was almost beaten to death by black gang members, police chief Daryl Gates and a Korean store owner -- all in their own words. The result is a painful, multifaceted portrait of racial differences. Says Smith: "My work is both political and personal. I'm trying to resolve this problem of strangeness and closeness in our world that...
Incidentally, the Marshall counts only grades earned after your first year; banding together to plant explosives in the records file at the Expos office will not help anyone's case, although it will probably make the whole gang feel considerably better...