Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Probably the best track on the album is "Who Makes the Loot?" featuring Grand Puba Maxwell. Grand Puba, formerly of Brand Nubian, just might be the best rapper out today. Also notable are "Bonafied Funk," featuring the now defunct Main Source and "It's Gettin Hectic," featuring Gang Starr...
...first week post-Andrew was chaotic as government agencies tried to coordinate with each other. Price gouging was rampant--$5 for a small bag of ice, for example. The national guard moved in to enforce a strict curfew and protect residences and businesses from looting. Spray-painted messages on homes such as "you loot, we'll shoot" were common, as were insurance company names and telephone numbers...
...Germany and come home years later to build well-furnished villas that provoked the envy of their Serb neighbors. Muslim survivors tell how the Serbian militia came with trucks to round up women and children last May; their location is still unknown. The next day the Serbs returned to loot the Muslims' tractors, cows, cars and furniture. Survivors say more than 5,000 men were beaten to death or shot when they tried to defend their homes. The Serbs dynamited the houses, so no Muslims could ever return. They even ordered the Muslims to fly white flags from their windows...
...often the funny lines are spoken as if they were jokes and not the characters' deadly serious responses to an insane world. This problem is compounded by campy background music in one scene that sounds lifted from a B-movie. These effects reduce parts of Loot from black comedy to self-mockery...
These flaws are not fatal, but they do detract from some of the skilled performance and the power of the script. Entertaining, even hysterical in places this production of Loot never quite achieve the deeply bitter effect of Orton's play...