Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the young recruits found was not what they had been promised. At the height of their empire, the Chambers gang controlled about half of Detroit's crack trade, running 200 drug houses, supplying some 500 more and raking in $3 million a week. The key to their success was the supply of green kids from Marianna, who were subjected to a regimen far more harrowing than Marine boot camp...
...petition, filed last November, was aimed at limiting special privileges now accorded to townhouse-style developments, which its supporters say increases the density of development in the neighborhood. The petition would have limited the height of all developments to 35 feet and set guidelines for roof styles...
...Today I would fall into the river at the first stone. I have grown very lethargic. I am writing this piece quite easily, but it has taken me a week to bring myself to do it. My creative and literary imagination will never again rise to any great height. I shall never again write such words as these...
...earth has torn away like flesh. The lightning flashes over them, the clouds pour down upon them, the dead streams come to life, full of the red blood of the earth. Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man. They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away. The soil will not keep them anymore...
McInerney found a singular voice in which to recount the drugged out misadventures of a young man named Jamie as he wanders through the downtown Manhattan club scene at its early-'80s height. His book was written entirely in the second person and mostly in the present tense. But there are no equivalents to these devices in the grammar of film. As a result, his screenplay lacks the bite of his original fiction...