Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their anger has combined with an epidemic of drug use to turn Liberty City and Overtown, where many buildings are painted gaudy shades of yellow, orange and green, into brightly colored tinderboxes. The rage is compounded by deep- seated animosity toward the police, 43% of whom are Hispanic. Like last week's violence, all of Miami's previous riots ignited after white or Hispanic officers shot black suspects. Twice last year, Miami police on drug raids burst into the homes of innocent black people. Black citizens accuse Hispanic officers of waging a vendetta against black youths...
...into Was songs, which David characterizes as "chocolate-covered razor blades." The Dog CD features a startling but ultimately respectful and impassioned reappraisal of the J.F.K. assassination, 11 MPH, set to a heavy funk beat, as well as a barn- burner reworking of Otis Redding's I Can't Turn You Loose. Both do memory proud. The group is working on a brand-new Was (Not Was) album for release this summer. The music will, naturally, be the same (only different). "It's a come-as-you-aren't party," says David. Be there or be square...
...sword does turn up, after some unlikelihoods normal to popular adventure. Perhaps it was Arthur's, but Burgess, who invented it, now seems to feel that it doesn't much matter. Both he and his characters discount Welsh nationalism as unserious playacting. One of his protagonists, in exasperation, chucks the sword into a pond, where it sinks without a deathbed speech. He explains, "I had to grasp a chunk of the romantic past and find it rusty." Which does not entirely answer a last-page question to the author: "What was that all about...
...final installment of his fiction trilogy, Professor of Law Derrick Bell devises a scheme to blow up the Harvard Coop when it won't invite him to hold a book-signing/wine and brie party there. Bell is awarded a $10 million contract by Paramount Pictures to turn the episode into a screenplay...
...election to another two-year term marks the first time in at least two decades the post has gone uncontested and comes at a time when Republicans are trying to turn the state's fiscal woes into political...