Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After New Hampshire, the Democratic contest remains a tangled wrangle. The current consensus of party professionals is that no candidate is likely to win a delegate majority before the primary and caucus season ends in June. But that does not necessarily mean a modern-day version of a brokered convention, where a cabal of Democratic leaders finally gather under NO SMOKING signs to award the nomination to Mario Cuomo...
...doesn't take a genius to figure out that something is wrong here. Come on, who casts Buster Poindexter, Tom Waits, Leon Redbone, Dr. John and Joe Strummer in a movie and then doesn't let them play? (I mean, besides Alex Cox, who did the same thing in the even more pernicious Straight to Hell...
More troubling than the vast scope of Lee's subject matter are his stylistic vacillations. At times, Daze is a Scorsese-type realistic exploration of Black life. Then Lee will abruptly change gears from a conflict scene a la Scorsese's Mean Streets into jazzy, upbeat musical numbers that could have been lifted from Little Shop of Horrors...
...accepted what was originally offered to me--which is what most transfers have to do--I would have been left off-campus until next spring. Out of three years at Harvard, I would have spent only one-third of the time living in a residential house. Does that mean I would have to enjoy the Harvard experience only one-third as much? After all, we are only one-third of the student that the rest...
...glittering enclave of restaurants, shops and theaters in Westwood Village, on Los Angeles' affluent West Side, seems a world away from the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles, where gang warfare took more than 100 innocent lives last year. But the ghetto violence occasionally spills beyond its borders. Last month Karen Toshima, a 27-year-old graphic artist, was caught in * the cross fire of rival drug gangs and died on the sidewalk outside a fancy restaurant. The Los Angeles establishment reacted with horror. Newspapers and television headlined the story for days. Police patrols in Westwood tripled...