Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just dismiss these members of the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia as isolated cases of mental illness and parental failure. They have been taught by their elders that their desires are paramount and that it is okay to achieve them at all costs. We have all been taught that it is okay to kill in the name of justice, that we deserve to have whatever we want, that some lives are not as good as other lives and that these "others" are expendable for their lack of convenience and their inability to meet superficial standards of perfection...
...well, Adolf Hitler's birthday. In the handwritten diary of one of the suspects, the anniversary, say the police, was clearly marked as a time to "rock and roll." Some members of Harris' and Klebold's clique, tagged in derision a few years before as the Trench Coat Mafia, had embraced enough Nazi mythology to spook their classmates. They reportedly wore swastikas on black shirts, spoke German in the halls, re-enacted World War II battles, played the most vicious video games, talked about whom they hated, whom they would like to kill. Harris and Klebold liked to bowl: when...
Exhibit number three: The Harvard Lampoon. Harvard's comedy mafia currently write for The Simpsons and Conan C. O'Brien '85; as undergraduates, they wrote for the Lampoon; ergo, the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally publishes a so-called humor magazine is funny. If only this syllogism were true. The Lampoon's reputation for comedy, much like Saturday Night Live's, rests on the belief that it once was very funny; whether it was ever all that funny, however, is up for debate. With a few notable exceptions, formulaic gags and random profanity don't make...
What to Look For Outlook: not so good. Holly wood seems determined to make movie after movie about the nearly-impotent Mafia, and the idea has been predictably overused in such recent films as Analyze This and Mafia. Grant will probably bumble and stutter his way through yet another film, while Caan gets another turn at his Oscar-nominated Godfather role. Director Kelly Makin has only the flop Brain Candy: Kids in the Hall among her credits, and test screenings have been decidedly negative, citing a script devoid of laughs and a tired premise among its shortcomings...
...They are the biggest Mafia around here. They get away with murder. They get away with rape. They get away with beatings," she said...