Word: scene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have replaced final clubs as the cornerstone of students' identity--for the clubs, Roosevelt would feel at home. Harvard students still love a good hierarchy. And, sadly, the institutionalized pecking order of many Harvard student groups is oftentimes just as silly as the turn-of-the-century final club scene seems...
...against her. This kid will steal anything--a boyfriend, clothes, jewels--to get to the top. And don't bet against Sugar Town either. It's the kind of movie Robert Altman might make if he ODed on Elavil--a multicharacter comedy about the Los Angeles rock scene. Make that the trashed rock scene. For it's mostly about people who once had it, then lost it, but would like to find it again...
...next big step is linking the states' databases. The FBI has started providing states with free CODIS (combined DNA index system) software, which digitizes and compares DNA profiles. This has already produced some impressive results. After a series of rapes in Sarasota, Florida investigators entered DNA from the crime scene into the national system. The DNA turned out to match that of Mark Daigle, who had served time in Virginia six years earlier for burglary. Florida officials arrested Daigle, and last year he was convicted of rape...
...treats approximately 344,000 people with mental illness or substance-abuse problems, according to the city's mental-health agency. Of those, 40,000 have serious, persistent mental-health problems. In Memphis, Tenn., police with mental-health training, as part of a crisis-intervention team, are sent to any scene involving an unstable individual. In Los Angeles, police specifically trained to deal with the mentally ill respond to reports of EDPs in some cases. In New York, police get 16 hrs. of training at the academy in dealing with EDPs. Police officials say the officers involved in the Busch shooting...
...smoothly adapts a novel by Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come) with vagrant similarities to The Sixth Sense. The payoff is relatively small change, but the setup is persuasive: a portrait of a blue-collar marriage in mute distress. And strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared...