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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate for President stood last week in a rubble-strewn lot in one of New York City's worst ghettos. Behind him, on the wall of a rundown tenement, was a one-word message of despair in orange paint: DECAY. On another nearby building was a scrawled reminder of what the neighborhood had received from white politicians in the past: BROKEN PROMISES. The candidate read a brief statement to reporters. Said he: "I'm impressed with the spirit of hope and determination by the people to save what they have." Hecklers in a crowd of 70 young black...
Center of the storm was Liberty City, a sprawling area of mostly rundown storefronts on the northwest side of the city. This was near where McDuffie, a former Marine and the father of three children, had lived. White motorists who strayed into the area were hauled from their cars and beaten. Police found one man with his ear and his tongue cut off and a bullet wound in his abdomen. A red rose had been stuffed into his mouth. Near African Square Park, a car repeatedly drove over two white men who had been beaten up and left lying...
Erks' territory is also a modern land scape of bleak mining towns, rundown homesteads and rural junkyards. Keeble resonantly plays the present against the past, especially in descriptions of Erks' dangerous drive over the mountains and across deserts. There are intensely perceived set pieces: a dog battling a possum; a woman reassembling a carburetor with Zen-like grace; a Snopesian funeral in a field littered with rusty tractor parts and dominated by the sight and smell of a huge pig roasting on a spit...
...have called the Shah a criminal, but you have not been specific. Could you give a rundown of what you feel his crimes were...