Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disaster from those who suffer the effects. But it is also about -- to the extent that the hallucinatory stream of consciousness can be said to be "about" anything -- transvestism, multinational corporations, military buildups, Hostess cupcakes and rape of every variety. At times, director Reza Abdoh's 135-minute, intermissionless work, co-written with Mira- Lani Oglesby, sounds like the ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic; at times, it is performance art of fever pitch and mute beauty...
What is chilling about many of the young criminals is that they show no remorse or conscience, at least initially. Youths brag about their exploits and shrug off victims' pain. A Chicago case in which four teenagers raped and killed a medical student was solved because of good police work and what Pat O'Brien, Cook County deputy state's attorney, describes as "the defendants' inability to keep their mouths shut" about the crime. "It was a badge," he explains. "It was something they talked about as if it gave them status within that group of guys." Youngsters offhandedly refer...
...empathy. At Giddings, a maximum-security facility for juveniles in Texas, murderers keep a daily journal of their feelings and act out their crime, taking the roles of both their victim and surviving family members. Sexual offenders meet with groups of victims every few months. At its prisons and work camps, the California Youth Authority runs voluntary classes in which inmates study property crimes, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, homicide and victims' rights. Some offenders do eventually express remorse. Says one Giddings boy, a middle- class 15-year-old from Austin who raped his eight-year-old neighbor...
...good work goes on for veteran good-earthers. Cheers' Ted Danson, president of the American Oceans Campaign, lobbies Congress to help save the oceans. Barbra Streisand offers a $250,000 donation to the Environmental Defense Fund. Robert Redford, who is planning a film with Steven Spielberg about the damaging of a rain forest, speaks on global warming at a Senate hearing. "It's important to raise the environment to the same level as national security," Redford says. "If we poison our planet, what is there left to defend...
...such heavyweights as Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Creative Artists Agency President Michael Ovitz, MCA President Sid Sheinberg, and Lear, who with his wife Lyn was a group founder. At the letter-stuffing level, the Earth Communications Office is targeting the few thousand actors, writers, producers and directors whose work reaches billions of people. In seminars and trips, ECO will educate creative folk on earth-shaking issues...