Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driving beat and chanted lyrics echo the pulse and pitch of inner-city streets. But rap music also draws out a meaner side of ghetto life: gang violence. When some 14,500 fans poured into Long Beach Arena near Los Angeles last week for a concert featuring the popular rap group Run-D.M.C., more than 300 members of black and Hispanic street gangs swarmed through the crowd, attacking everyone around them. Audience members struck back with metal chairs and whatever else came to hand, until police armed with batons broke up the concert. Forty-five people were injured, including...
Many figures in the entertainment industry contend that rap is no more aggressive than heavy metal, punk and other types of highly charged rock 'n' roll. Rejecting the notion that rap is inherently violent, Psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint of Harvard explains that "rap music really comes from inner-city street kids, some of whom are gang members immersed in antisocial behavior." Promoters have found that when guards are trained to spot gang colors and bar potential troublemakers, rap concerts are trouble free. Meanwhile, Run-D.M.C. is proceeding with the final week of its tour, hoping to raise a little less...
...political and economic systems come together but cannot meet, and this month is the 25th anniversary of its erection. "In the beginning it was just a wall," says Peter Werner, 49, a designer- architect who lives in West Berlin. "Then they made it more and more perfect with an inner wall and cleared earth between them like a desert war zone." This unique piece of architecture is known among East German officials as the "antifascist protection wall." West Berliners call it the "wall of shame...
Bonafini, a large woman of tremendous inner strength and rigid convictions, lost both her sons within 10 months of each other in 1977. She, like so many others, turned to the mothers organization, which allowed her to pour her heart and soul into the quest for justice and posthumous vindication of her children. It also gave these women a support group, a voice, a way of forgetting loneliness while forcing Argentina to acknowledge, then remember, the horror. The mothers carried their despair to Pope John Paul II and to political leaders worldwide; they became the focus of a couple...
Fearful of a backlash, corporations tend to be hesitant about describing the inner workings of their monitoring programs. Says Barton Reppert, publisher of Office Health & Safety Monitor, a newsletter: "Many companies won't say anything in detail about it. It's a very sensitive area." Companies with thousands of workers doing repetitive jobs tend to operate some of the most stringent monitoring systems. At Pacific Southwest Airlines offices in San Diego and Reno, the master computer records exactly how long the 400 reservation clerks spend on each call and how much time passes before they pick up their next...