Word: wiring
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...sitting in front of my TV, at home, for the sixth consecutive hour, watching “The Wire.” Bubbles, one of the show’s most engaging characters, was a lifelong crack addict until his mid-40s, when a harrowing experience inspires him to slowly and painfully turn his life around and become clean. As he finds a steady job and reconnects with his kin, I could not help but express my happiness to my entire uninterested family, who could not understand why I was spending my entire break watching this crushingly depressing show...
This is what made Bubbles’ story all the more powerful. In the dark and crummy world of “The Wire,” Bubbles, through sheer force of personality and spirit, survives. As I sat watching his televised redemption, I was glad I could see his story, and get a small, fictional view of the real world...
...shouted, “I’m back, been two years.” (“Five,” says the old man behind them.) Coming into the station, the one where they built cages and kept federal prisoners during Katrina, you can still see the wire outlines. That night, on Bourbon Street, women asking, “Looking for a good time?” The suited man outside one club: “Guys, I got one question...
Marcia C. Hamilton, 62, a lifelong resident of Cambridge, names herself as one of those disgruntled individuals. A barbed wire fence separates the yards of her home and, as she calls Fastman’s abode, the “purple house.” Since last spring, when the two chickens and three ducks were first brought into a constructed coop in the adjacent yard, Hamilton said she has been distracted by the unpleasant odors and loud noises that accompanied the birds’ daily habits...
...Darcy is a great competitor, and that’s two weeks in a row that he’s been able to qualify for IC4As in an event,” Saretsky said. “Each time it’s come down to the absolute wire...