Word: spree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Korder first showed talent with 1987's Fun, a teenage boy's nihilist spree, and burst into prominence in 1988 with Boys' Life, a Mametian glimpse of postadolescent rituals of drinking, puking, courting and infidelity. In Search and Destroy, now on Broadway, he looks at men his own age who have achieved material success but feel an inner hollowness. They seek cures ranging from ritual maleness a la Iron John to shedding their ties and common sense in reckless crusades for adventure. The central character, played by film actor Griffin Dunne, reacts to a busted marriage and a Florida income...
...with the white authorities. In 1990 he broke into air-force headquarters in Pretoria and stole a large cache of weapons. With the police on his tail, he disappeared underground for six months and tried to organize commando cells. To spark a Boer revolt, he went on a bombing spree, targeting the offices of two senior De Klerk aides and Melrose House, the historic site of the 1902 Afrikaner surrender in the Anglo-Boer...
Like a spendthrift consumer with too many credit cards, R.H. Macy went on a wild shopping spree in the 1980s. But after bingeing on several ill-timed and richly priced acquisitions, including two department-store chains that cost $1.1 billion, the 134-year-old New York City retailer found itself deep in debt, mired in an industry-wide slump and unable to pay its bills. The day of reckoning arrived last week when Macy's was forced to file for bankruptcy after one of its major creditors rejected a proposed buyout by CBS chairman Lawrence Tisch...
...Killing Spree...
...accuser in the Palm Beach rape case, never expected that she would watch a forensics expert peer through her black panty hose at more than 3 million viewers nationwide. The producers of Thelma & Louise could not have imagined that their cockeyed vision of two women on an ill-fated spree would set off a national debate about misogyny, male bashing and the power of feminine anger ungirdled. And certainly neither Clarence Thomas nor Anita Hill could have guessed that their private friction a decade ago would wind up sparking the most ferocious weekend of rhetorical slashing and burning in memory...