Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...literary revolution. "Don't we have to change [the establishment]?" he asks me. "Then don't worry about it. Even if we were all published in the New Yorker, would that be the point? You're missing the point if it's a new driver driving the same old truck. you can do alternative thing and have them be accepted, not necessarily by other people, but by yourself." Kevin was a member of Padan Aram poetry board, and he says, "That's where Padan Aram failed--it wanted to be another Advocate.. It doesn't really even exist anymore...
...PAINTED WITH VIVID stripes and a rising sun, plies the drearier streets of New Haven, Conn., drawing eager throngs like some dark version of the Good Humor truck. Four times a week, the "dope fiends," as they call themselves, line up to enter the vehicle. They identify themselves to city workers by their code names ("Carol Burnett," "Streetcat," "Wizard") and, in exchange for used needles, receive survival kits: bottles of bleach, bottles of water, clean needles, and condoms. They do this because they are terrified of the epidemic that is raging through their city. "Just because I shoot drugs doesn...
FLANKED BY 200 OTHER POLICE AND FBI AGENTS, INcluding a shotgun-toting swat team -- and TV camera crews, to be sure -- police chief Daryl Gates elatedly joined in the arrest of three suspects wanted for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny at the outset of the Los Angeles riots. Leading the 2 a.m. raid into South Central with flak jacket and side arm, Gates personally collared one of the suspects, Damian Williams, whose nickname is "Football," and escorted him into a squad car. "Chief Gates, you're going!" Williams told the retiring police chief, according to what Gates recounted...
...known as "Twan." A fourth man, Gary Williams, 33, suspected of lifting Denny's wallet, turned himself in. The 8-Trey Crips are alleged to be the turf lords of the intersection where millions of TV viewers -- in a grim mirror image of the videotaped Rodney King beating -- saw truck driver Denny stomped into unconsciousness. "The department was very, very concerned about our inability to reach Mr. Denny," Gates said after the arrests. "We are hopeful that this will atone for some of that...
While Bush's strategists "would not be surprised" if the electorate sees a "white truck driver" ad, the Clinton camp has an image it will "definitely" use this fall. "What we're all about is the post-riot video," says deputy campaign manager George Stephanopoulos, "the shots of blacks and whites and Hispanics and Asians pushing brooms together in the cleanup. In a nutshell, that's our whole campaign. Everything else is secondary. The way to defeat wedge issues is with web issues. The Republicans are geniuses at playing to people's fears. But this is not 1988. Today...