Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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GoodFellas Martin Scorsese's Mafia wiseguys rob decent folks, kill crippled kids, snort and sell coke -- and have a swell time together -- in this dark farce that blazes through its 2 1/2 hours like a hit man on a contract high...
...alleged CIA plot to unite national-front movements from the Black to the Baltic Seas into a single anti-Soviet confederation. Soyuz claimed credit for Gorbachev's sacking of the country's liberal Interior Minister last month, and brazenly announced that the Foreign Minister was next on its hit list...
...filth" and a "public enemy" who will "use and abuse any young helpless prey he comes across." Most amazing of all, Steve the Tramp is also a child's toy. The 5-in. figurine, manufactured by California-based Playmates Toys, depicts a ragged street character from Disney's hit movie Dick Tracy. But the Rev. Christopher Rose, an Episcopal priest in Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging, Rose launched...
...recession and prolong it through next year and beyond. Chief among them is the threat of a drawn-out war in the Persian Gulf. That could push the price of oil, which closed at $25.92 per bbl. last week, well past the $41.40-per-bbl. peak that it hit in October. Another serious threat is the possibility of a crisis in the U.S. banking system, which is awash in bad loans and increasingly reluctant to lend more money. L. William Seidman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told Congress last week that 1991 is likely to bring the failure...
Bleeder of the Pack American Psycho, the latest novel by brat-pack golden boy Bret Easton Ellis, 26, contained detailed descriptions of female mutilations that outraged women staff members at Simon & Schuster, Ellis' publisher. Did that give S&S second thoughts? Nope. But shortly before the book was to hit the stores, bad press notices finally persuaded the firm to scrap the project and forfeit the reported $300,000 advance...