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Kerry Perkins, 22, pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping and armed robbery, prosecutor Adrienne Lynch said...
...roommate planned to get to Harvard Hall and join our upstairsneighbor who had been there since 5 a.m. and was the first person on line. Little did she know that a lynch mob of huge water polo players would foil her plan...
...which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves, driven to posse paranoia by their suspicions about people whose only sin may be eccentricity. It's sort of a lynch-mob movie for laughs -- laughs that are meant to catch in the back of your throat, like movie-house popcorn that turns out to be all kernels. One of the new neighbors is described as "about a nine on the tension scale." And so is this smart, crafty, off-putting...
...time Michael entered Laney High School, he was known primarily as a baseball player. But within a year basketball had become his No. 1 priority. Recalls Fred Lynch, Michael's coach at Laney: "Michael is one player who could have been very good and not worked as hard. But he is the hardest- working athlete I have ever been around...
...religious hysteria, racial confrontation, abusive law enforcement, Klan night-riding and a climactic murder by blowtorch -- seemed at the 1957 debut to arise from Williams' inner demons. Three decades of civil rights struggle compelled a whole nation to see those demons as its own. Yet if the descent into lynch-mob madness echoes grim headlines, Hall has scrupulously avoided the common error of toning down Williams' expressionistic excess into unsuitable realism. In the first scene, the lighting changes with every few sentences of dialogue, to underscore shifts in mood and to cue the audience that it has entered a realm...