Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each day drugs threaten to destroy neighborhoods, corrupt society and take the lives of people in cities across the country. The images of the drug war are powerful: a Natick women reports her son and his friends to police for smoking crack in her basement; an 11-year-old girl breaks into houses in South Boston to support her drug habit...
Sweeney and his landlady are at bottom leftist abstractions. He is the innocent man turned criminal by a wicked power structure; exiled by a corrupt judge who lusted after his wife, he returns vowing to show nobody any more mercy than he received. Mrs. Lovett is a singing, dancing and grimacing Mother Courage, sapped of moral scruple by economic privation and sheer will to survive. Beth Fowler and Bob Gunton sing nobly, and the production's intimacy includes a welcome emphasis on natural, unmiked sound. She enriches Lovett with a lifelong ardor for Sweeney and a pixilated fondness for romantic...
Golenbock's year-long investigation of the Wolfpack has left him jaded and furious with the corrupt N.C. State hoops program, and he vents his anger in his introduction--an attack on the materialistic, win-at-all-costs American value system that projects crack dealers and inside traders as the heroes of the 1980s...
Frank is also suffering from an American obsession with sexual controversy. House Member Joseph P. McDade (R-Pa.), a powerful Republican on the Appropriations Committee, is now under fire for allegedly taking illegal contributions from a corrupt defense firm, and then channeling to the firm millions in taxpayer dollars...
...Sarney is caught between conflicting, and sometimes violent, forces within his nation. On one side are the settlers and developers, often backed by corrupt politicians, who are razing the forests to lay claim to the land. On the other are hundreds of fledgling conservation groups, along with the Indian tribes and rubber tappers whose way of life will be destroyed if the forests disappear. The clash has already produced the world's most celebrated environmental martyr, Chico Mendes, a leader of the rubber tappers who was murdered for trying to stand in the way of ranchers...