Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collection of reportage and short fiction, mixes truth and fiction without blinking. Ellroy investigates the unsolved murder of his mother, trying to make sense of the event that has determined the course of his life. He follows real-life L.A. Sheriff's Department Homicide men through their daily crime-ridden routines. He takes the O.J. Simpson trial as a launch pad for an insightful analysis of L.A. And he spices it all with two alliteratively lunatic novellas set on the tainted side of Hollywood's golden age. All in all, there is nothing particularly new about Crime Wave in Ellroy...
Instead of bowing before MTV's shiny-suit-ridden, treble-enhanced Jam of the Week, I pit myself against the MC I have yet to meet through lyrics saturated with wordplay and allusions and urban imagery and political consciousness. I pump my fist when a colleague on stage instructs me to, roam sidewalks with a perennially playing walkman, love few things more than a huddle of cats dropping science to beatboxes and split cheap cigars open while listening to my newly-purchased Roots album (by the way, buy it now, it's truly ridiculous...
...After a see-sawing, turnover-ridden first half, the Quakers slowly but surely put the Crimson to bed in the second, outscoring Harvard 55-38 after the intermission...
...second night of a road doubleheader, a flu-ridden Harvard team did not have enough steam to keep up with Cornell for 40 minutes and dropped an 81-74 decision at Newman Arena...
When things get too weird, a small crew of angst-ridden teenagers steps in to save the day. There's Stan, the wannabe intellectual football captain; Stokely, the grungy science fiction-reading loner; Zeke, the brilliant drug-dealing second-year senior; Delilah, the self loathing head cheerleader; Marybeth, the annoyingly innocent new girl; and finally the outcast Casey, played by Elijah Wood, who's a bit too cute for his supposedly nerdy character. Relying on Stokely's knowledge of science fiction--"if you kill the queen, everything will go back to normal... in theory"--this mismatched group of teens plots...