Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intense and convincing is this show? During the final murder scene, my friend screamed louder than the victim...
...forced. The editing at times is also unnaturally jarring, for no apparent reason. However, there are moments of pure Spike Lee: when the barber awakens to a pair of gangsters looming over him in an unnerving point of view or when a young boy is taught by his older friend how to swear with the correct hand gestures...
Most undergraduates here would admit to believing, at least for a moment, in some special quality in Harvard. My moment came and went the summer after my high school graduation. Then, on the advice of a girl-friend, I got hold of a copy of Smithsonian magazine. The magazine, following the summer 1986 bandwagon, published an essay commemorating Harvard's much-ballyhooed 350th anniversary. It was written by a Melvin Maddocks--who like many authors of such pieces boasted a class year...
...north in Oakland, auto mechanic Richard Reynolds glanced at the traffic on the double-decker I-880 freeway across the street and urged a friend not to drive to night school until after the rush hour. Minutes later, Reynolds felt "a ripple." Then a neighbor screamed a warning. He ran out of his shop to find "the whole goddam ground lifting up." He grabbed a telephone pole as the sidewalk buckled beneath his feet, and looked up at a horrifying sight. A mile-long section of the freeway's upper deck began to heave, then collapsed onto the lower roadway...
Adams has always felt uncomfortable about his picture of Loan executing the Viet Cong officer. What the picture does not show is that a few moments earlier the Viet Cong had slaughtered the family of Loan's best friend in a house just up the road. All this occurred during the Tet offensive, a state of general mayhem all over South Viet Nam. The Communists in similar circumstances would not have had qualms about summary execution...