Word: trespassing
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...gold, a gang of black drug dealers, whose leaders are played by rappers Ice-T and Ice Cube, turn up to use the place for a murder. Race, greed and venality on all sides soon lead to deadly conflict. There's something bracing about the utter amorality of TRESPASS. Director Walter Hill has something like a genius for staging and editing action in jolting bursts. The movie wants to make this place, these people into an urban metaphor. But because there's no one here you really care about, the film finally shows more technique than heart...
Some of rap is about acting, role playing. That's probably one reason why so many rappers are going into movies. Cube made an impressive debut as a sympathetic, beer-drinking thug in the 1991 Boyz N the Hood, and in Trespass, coming out this week, he is a gun-toting gangster. Although he may play a criminal in movies and in his music, it's a front. Not that he doesn't have an ugly, heavy-metal misogynistic side that he really ought to jettison. But he does show indications of an underlying humanism. On his first solo album...
Caravan was arraigned in Cambridge District Court yesterday on the misdemeanor charges of larceny under $250 and trespass after notice. He was released on $100 bail, according to a spokesperson for the Middlesex County District Attorney...
...prohibits otherwise permitted speech solely on the basis of the subjects the speech addresses." He was quick to add, "Let there be no mistake about our belief that burning a cross in someone's front yard is reprehensible. But St. Paul has sufficient means at its disposal" -- such as trespass laws -- "to prevent such behavior without adding the First Amendment to the fire...
...purpose in the world as well as its material prospects. Inflation was reined in, exports rose comfortably, and a Socialist President managed to guide France's fortunes, at home and abroad, with the confident generalship of a De Gaulle. A people famous for crossing swords over the slightest trespass or ideological difference settled into a harmonious political dispensation...