Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chances are one in 24,000 that the average subway rider could be the victim of a crime on any given day on the Hub's mass transit system, according to MBTA Det. William D O'Connell...
Proposals for inclusionary zoning--which would require major real estate developers in the city to provide affordable housing with each construction project--circulated in Cambridge for almost one year before falling victim to a legislative death on March...
...irreducible: tracing their signs for energy and pathos in the dark, his bodies acquire a formidable power of structure. Sometimes it is very clear; the figure of David holding up the head of Goliath (the Goliath is a self-portrait, a striking rehabilitation of a "monster" as heroic victim) has the abruptness of an ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt, the other by the attributes of her martyrdom: the sword tipped with a red reflection from the cushion, meeting...
...fact, Amis is quite the scold. His Rabelaisian comic gift cuts savagely at the patchwork of relativism and materialism that passes for modern social fabric. The novel's loutish hero, John Self, is a grotesque victim of life in the fast lane: "I hate people with degrees, O-levels, eleven-pluses, Iowa Tests, shorthand diplomas," says Self. "And you hate me, don't you. Yes you do. Because I'm the new kind, the kind who has money but can never use it for anything but ugliness...
...think she's a victim of overexposure," says Freddy DeMann. Freddy manages Madonna, not Cyndi, and frets - is, in fact, "absolutely worried" - that all the p.r. heat might burn out his client. Now, then. While the ladies play tag with the limelight, a few thoughts occur...