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...like mtv, performed by Road Warriors. The Rodney King video shows cops in the stylized tribal rioting that men in groups on dangerous excursions sometimes use as a form of bonding -- solidarities of atrocity on the late shift. The truck-driver video looked like ritual sacrifice, the helicopter circling overhead, the rioters circling the trucker's flung body. Both videos recorded naked power dances, conscienceless, brainless, evil, pain inflicting: I have your life under my boot. To look at them last week was to see Americans of both races going backward at the speed of light...
...state of California might as well have executed Harris on the 50-yd. line at half time of the Super Bowl -- the two moral constituencies, pro-death penalty and con, cheering or shrieking from either side of the stadium, the federal judiciary hovering overhead like a black blimp. When Harris was finally dead, America saw the postgame show: witnesses to the execution describing how the prisoner may or may not have mouthed the words "I'm sorry" to the father of one of the victims; breathed the fumes; convulsed and drooled; then died...
...that it [the stand] will force us out of business or anything," Weiner said looking over his tortoise-shelled bifocals and salt and pepper beard. "It's that he'll be able to undercut us because he has no overhead or rent--we will suffer some losses...
Because of the uncertainty of the funding level the Commonwealth will be able to provide to its cities, the Cambridge is attempting to streamline services and overhead bureaucracy, Healy wrote. He plans to examine services such as the fire department, health care financing and the library system...
...workers in the California Conservation Corps (CCC), many of whom were assigned the task of stripping trees of fruit as Malathion-carrying helicopters circled overhead, refused what they thought was hazardous duty...