Word: hoods
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...they grabbed Hollywood by the collar with Menace II Society. The film, about black, disenfranchised youth, opened to critical acclaim and big box office. They returned to that milieu in 1995 with the ambitious Dead Presidents, about a black Vietnam soldier returning to a life of crime in the hood. With American Pimp, a controversial 1999 documentary, they took a straight-on view of the gold-medallion and Cadillac...
...These men turned in their 40’s for Cristal, their hoopties for drop Bentleys and their “ghetto girls” for “six model chicks”. As faithful bards to their ’hood of origin, these poets admittedly changed their rhymes as they sold out to that which they had raged against, though they promised, in the words of Jay-Z, “Make my money now / and then back to the streets.” Eminem, despite his Caucasian ethnicity and his mid-West origins, was able...
...Davis and Good say two more officers came out and, following the orders of the sergeant, arrested Trombly, pinning him to the front hood of the second cruiser. Good claims that his client said nothing in the process and did not resist. By the students’ account, prior to his arrest, Trombly had not even directly exchanged words with any of the officers...
...days after the attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Virginia Sloan realized that if the terrorists wanted to attack American freedoms, they had got somewhere. "I was valet parking for dinner, and I had my hood and trunk and the inside of my car searched," says Sloan, executive director of the Constitution Project, a legal-issues organization in Washington. "Can we as Americans tolerate that? I think...
...Saturdays Hood Trophy races at Tufts, the Crimson combined for a fifth place finish with 122 total points. In eight races in the A Divison, sophmore Ewell Potts finished in eighth place with 63 points, and junior Daniel Litchfield finished in seventh place with 59 points. Those two strong finishes propelled the Crimson into fifth...