Word: lurked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes Jeffreys sings about these kids directly: the hard, hopeless downtown orphans whose hustle along the thin edge becomes a musical metaphor for political desperation and spiritual desolation. Often the kids lurk at the core of a lyric or, like phantoms, underneath a smart-stepping riff. Jeffreys does not always deal with them directly. His best tunes - many of them, like Mystery Kids, to be found on his newest album, Escape Artist -have the cool anger and the anxious tenderness of a street blood. A Jeffreys record is like a fast cruise across the radio band. Reggae, jazz and full...
...best defense against muggers and rapists is to avoid places where they might lurk. Common sense says never to walk alone at night or to pick up hitchhikers. If, however, you do suddenly feel a gun or cold knife against your neck, stay as calm as possible. "Try not to panic," says Captain Ephirne F. Leija of the Houston police department. "Do the best you can under a difficult situation. Above all, don't try to be a hero...
There is something terribly wrong with our priorities, and if we are ever going to take back the night we are going to have to do it in the middle of the day. Our inconsistencies do not lurk in the shadows, but stand openly in broad daylight. They exist not only "out there" on a national level, but right here at Harvard as well. Why does a University which expends so much energy recruiting MidWesterners, football players, and alumni children fail to meet affirmative action guidelines? Why do we spend $40,000 on afunctional "kiosks" when we do not have...
Moscow is still safer than New York City, but the U.S.'s high juvenile crime rate is small comfort to Soviet officials. What they call hooliganism-public disorderliness, minor assault and vandalism -is widespread; gangs of youths often lurk around the paths and stairwells of Moscow's apartment complexes, bullying residents. As a result, the city is encouraging the growth of volunteer auxiliary police and bolstering the already highly visible regular police force...