Word: cranks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same crank caller who has harassed more than a dozen Harvard students has struck at other Massachusetts colleges as well, law enforcement authorities said yesterday...
...effect, this would make the NEA hostage to every crank, ideologue and God botherer in America. A grant for an exhibition of Gothic ivories could be pulled on the grounds that the material was offensive to Jews (much medieval art is anti-Semitic), to Muslims (what about those scenes of false prophets in hell with Muhammad?) or, for that matter, to atheists offended by the intrusion of religious propaganda into a museum. A radical feminist could plausibly argue that her "nonreligious" beliefs were offended by the sexism of Rubens' nudes or Picasso's Vollard Suite. Doubtless a fire worshiper could...
They argued bitterly, as they still do. "Therewere times when we went so far, and went nofurther, for the sake or our friendship," saysKaplan. "Sometimes Trig was insulting--he wouldrefer to me as 'a little newspaper Zionist,' and Ithought he was a crank...
...usually, once the team hit Connecticut, everything was forgotten. They would ask the coach to crank up the radio, and the laughing would start again...
Larry Bruce, the extraordinary dope lawyer, believes few retire voluntarily. "Some make it out," he says, "but this crank business is getting bigger. It's no longer limited to the backwoods, bikers and interstate truckers. It seems to me that I'm seeing as many arrests for possession of meth as for cocaine, and my user clients caught with meth are frequently young professionals and students. The business may be terrible -- it is terrible -- but you're looking at capitalism in action here. I wonder if it may be building toward critical mass...