Word: murderousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colonel North has broken the law, and has openly defended lying to Congress to conceal his illegal acts. He committed his crimes in support of a bad lot of men who engage in widespread rape, murder, and torture. What other "real Americans" may we look forward to viewing in the Harvard Coop windows? Charles Whitman? Richard Speck? Ed Gein? Perhaps Charles Manson...
...talents come in handy. In the America of the 1990s, corporations have become all-powerful. They run police departments for municipal governments like caterers run restaurants for hotels. Corporate executives control everything, and as Robocop soon learns, it is a businessman named Dick who masterminded Murphy's murder...
...Robocop is no vigilante. Unlike Dirty Harry, Robocop remains inside the law and kills only when attacked. Which is not to say that this cyborg lacks a thirst for revenge. Chance encounters with one of his murderers and with his former partner (Nancy Allen) bring back some of Murphy's memories. And in pursuing his killers, Robocop is led straight to the man behind his murder, Dick...
Ferocious pit bulls can be seen any day with their drug-dealer owners on the corner of Ninth and Butler streets in North Philadelphia. The dogs, with names like Murder, Hitler and Scarface, wear metal-studded collars concealing crack and cocaine and the day's proceeds. They are equally visible on Chicago's West and South sides, where teenage boys have taken to brandishing their fierce pit bulls just as they would a switchblade or a gun. "It's a macho thing, like carrying a weapon," says Jane Alvaro of the Anti-Cruelty Society...
...community, security, the orderly progress of generations. In the aftermath of the episode that night, the parents in the neighborhood "had only begun to learn that while their love had been sufficient to form us, it would not necessarily keep us alive." Passions, in McDermott's striking prose, both murder and create...