Word: racketeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich in crooks, babes and crooked babes. The balderdash that follows is nonsense of the highest quality. It proves both to scolds who think that funk, grunge and rap and the rest are rhythmic vomiting, and to those who actually like the stuff, that music today is a racket...
...very good album. Its volume and distortion and proto-industrial sound and depressing, violent lyrics do not make it an easy listen; it's actually hard to believe that just two guitars, a bass, a drum machine and Steve's angry voice can make such a wonderful racket. This album is called Songs about Fucking. Steve's that kind...
...bathing-beauty escapades that were Sennett's specialty. The advent of movies in the late 1890s had brought full visibility to the human personality, to the corporeal self that print, the dominant medium before film, could only describe and abstract. In a Sennett comedy, speechlessness raised itself to a racket, but Chaplin instinctively understood that visibility needs leisure as well as silence to work its most intimate magic...
...with possible government or other donor subsidy--for another four or five hours in the factory where they work. Such a plan where the benefits of education don't come at the expense of wages is one of the most promising options for kids trapped in the child labor racket...
Undergraduates reading this column who originally hail from other parts of the country have become intimately familiar with a very powerful and lucrative racket around these parts...