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...delegates attending the Earth Summit next month. An alumnus of the legendary gang that heisted $7.3 million from a Glasgow-London mail train in 1963, Biggs has been a fugitive in Brazil for more than 20 years. He plans to counsel listeners on how to avoid the city's rampant street crime, and he may also throw in some practical tips to visitors on coddling a queasy stomach or dealing with recalcitrant taxi drivers. "Some people think it is in bad taste to allow a crook to do such a thing," said the former Great Train Robber, who hopes...
However, the goal of Take Back the Night is an end to the rampant violence against women, and this violence is often not perpetrated on the streets or at night...
...musicians as to who is really alternative and who is merely posing. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, quoted in Rolling Stone, says he feels the "duty to warn kids of false music that's claiming to be underground or alternative," while his band itself is roundly criticized for selling out. Rampant accusations of cheesiness from all sides give this kind of continuous conflict a kind of Maoist tone--no one is ever revolutionary enough. Nothing sticks together...
...Hymietown" during his presidential bid in 1984, did not produce a commensurate jump in support among black voters. Brown's fuzzy plan for a 13% flat tax bothered almost everyone. A bad week got worse when unnamed former security guards claimed on an abc newscast that there had been rampant marijuana and cocaine use during parties at Brown's Los Angeles home while he was Governor. Brown himself was not accused of drug use, and he vehemently denies all charges...
...blackest black and the whitest white. No moral or visual gray tones here. Dark cloaked figures rush toward the Grand Canal, and pigeons scatter up into an angry sky. The spider-webbery of shadows casts doom across an innocent face. It is a canvas, of baroque silhouettes and diagonals rampant, that marries text to texture in vintage film-noir style. Othello: the postwar man who feels betrayed by his wife. Desdemona: the innocent woman brutalized by her suspicious spouse...