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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who disagree include no small number of the people the ACLU claims to be representing: the tenants of public-housing projects. In the Robert Taylor Homes just south of Stateway Gardens, Ray Goodwin, 9, describes how one of his friends was gunned down on the monkey bars in a neighborhood playground "because he didn't want to be in a gang." Says Goodwin: "I want the sweeps. There be too many guns in our buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come on in. No, Stay Out. | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...Grand Poobah Carey Gabay '94, Master of Peons and Terror of 12 Houses, through the unbounded benevolence of his magnanimous heart, has allowed a single question to remain, while chastising dangerous hooligan and adventurist counter-revolutionary Anjalee C. Davis '94 for her pernicious bourgeois-democratic notions. Gabay's electoral monkey business, under the guise of legalistic hair-splitting, would have done a despot like Juvenal Habyarimana proud...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

...Above the Rim" at 2, 4:15, 6:25 and 8:35. "Naked Gun 33 1/3" at 1:45, 4, 6, 8:05 and 10:20. "Philadelphia" at 1:15, 3:45, 6:15 and 8:50. "Monkey Trouble" at 1:25, 3:25 and 5:45. "Reality Bites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around Harvard | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...they're-not-doing -anything-at-the-moment- they're-thinking-about-it-and-they-will-when-they-have- the-chance. What is expressed here is an aversion that is both aesthetic and intimate, a horripilation of the sexual reflex that is perfectly captured by the word creep. Maddy Monkey knows that women now, in 1994, certainly have the language to talk about it. They are doing so. The war is not exactly undeclared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...certainly is a lively venue for dealmaking. At least four films picked up distributors during this year's festival: Go Fish, a lesbian comedy (to be released by Goldwyn); Spanking the Monkey, a startling drama about incest that won the audience prize for best dramatic feature (Fine Line); Clerks, a low- budget comedy set in a convenience store (Miramax); and Martha and Ethel, a documentary about two lifelong nannies (Sony Pictures Classics). Several other movies are under negotiation with distributors, among them Hoop Dreams, a nearly three-hour documentary about two ghetto youths aiming for basketball success that was perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Redford's Mountain | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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