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...circle is not only vicious, it breeds violence. As crime rates rise, state legislators react by passing stiff laws requiring longer minimum prison sentences. Result: more prisoners stay longer in prisons that are already crammed well past their planned capacity. Tensions rise as up to five inmates crowd into one-man cubicles. Gang rule prevails, as the toughest convicts abuse and torment the meek or nonviolent, and guards on undermanned correction staffs fear to intervene. When an inmate is finally freed, he is equipped for only one thing: to survive in the ways of the walled jungle. More often than...
...grossly confuse aggressive-looking behavior, which is playful and appears to please "one couple in three," with genuinely hostile routines that are compulsive or vicious. That confusion could be dangerous for many people today whose zeal for experimentation exceeds their common sense...
...time he ran for a second term in 1978, the club was staffed by 150 people and raised almost $8 million for his re-election and another $8 million in 1980. Its heavy impact is feared by many Democrats. Club mailings and TV ads are hard-hitting, sometimes vicious. The club backed John East for the Senate in North Carolina last fall, for example, and so mangled the record of his opponent, conservative Democratic Senator Robert Morgan, that Morgan looked like a liberal. At the same time, the club's skillfully edited TV ads in favor of East made...
...Polyester, Francine Fishpaw (Divine) presides over a bunch rowdier by far than any Dark Age cavalry. Her husband runs a movie house specializing in kiddie porn; her daughter trucks around with vicious punks; her son is a criminally insane foot fetishist. Only Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), Francine's dream lover, offers any hope for spiritual regeneration, for he is everything her husband is not: handsome, slim, roughly debonair, and the owner of an art drive-in that shows Marguerite Duras triple bills. Best of all, he is in love with her . . . or so it seems. Francine should have known...
...trust her with her light skin. They see the traces, the Africa in her face, but they don't believe that she does since "Yallas don't come to being black natural-like. They have to choose it and most don't choose it." She is a vicious thorn piercing Black men's imaginations, a "tar baby side-of-the-road whore trap...