Word: crewing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...actor Tom Hanks, director Brian De Palma and their crew began filming The Bonfire of the Vanities, the Tom Wolfe novel that portrays the Bronx as a crime-ridden community, some residents complained that the movie would give the place a bad image. But not far from the movie action, a more terrifying, true-life drama was taking place: for the sixth time in seven weeks, a cabdriver was found dead on the streets...
...three of the murders were committed by the same man, who called for the cabs during the early-morning hours, shot the drivers in the head and took their cash. As far as local cabdrivers are concerned, the bad image of the Bronx will remain long after the Bonfire crew has gone...
...Defense Department has a strange way with awards. Until this week, the crew of the U.S.S. Pueblo, imprisoned after the ship was seized by North Korea in 1968, had not received the Pentagon's POW medal. Since the U.S. and North Korea were not at war at the time, former Commander Lloyd Bucher and his men were classified as mere "detainees." It took an act of Congress to change the Pentagon's mind. Contrast that with the medals awarded to Captain Will Rogers III and Lieut. Commander Scott Lustig of the S.S. Vincennes last year. They were cited for their...
There's an acrid tang in nearly every area of modern American pop culture. Heavy-metal masters Motley Crue invoke images of satanism and the Beastie Boys mime masturbation onstage. Rap poets like N.W.A. and the 2 Live Crew call for the fire of war against police or the brimstone of explicit, sulfurous sex. Comedians like Sam Kinison and Howard Stern bring locker-room laughs to cable TV and morning radio. On network television, sitcom moms get snickers with innuendos about oral sex. In movies, the F word has become so common, like dirty wallpaper, the industry's conservative ratings...
...expression, comics and musicians can now be as nasty as they wanna be. And nasty is the word. In the erotic masterpieces of literature, sex was an expression of pleasure, and often of love, between equals. Today's sex talk, from Kinison and Clay and the 2 Live Crew, is almost exclusively from the male-pig viewpoint. A woman's role, their line goes, is only to serve and service...