Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SUBTRACT DRUGS FROM THE bloody San Diego gang scene that reporter Bob Sipchen describes -- go ahead, wave a wand -- and the festering urban mess still would stink of hopelessness. Sipchen, who writes for the Los Angeles Times, uses an African proverb for an epigraph: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." If there is no village of strong adults, only warring teenage street gangs controlling a few blocks of city turf, then the gangs may do the child rearing. Kevin Glass was 10, a clever, skinny black kid already moving from mischief to larceny, when he began...
Regardless of locale, most lawyer novels are easterns, in which the court system is a semicorrupt mess but the heroic judge/prosecutor/defense attorney finds the loophole that achieves justice. This one is a horseless, string-'em- up western whose message is that black hats are felonizing homesteaders and courts are run by sociobabbling liberals. Come back, Shane...
...uncharted territory than ever before, and is the first Trek venture initiated since Roddenberry died last year. "We've managed to create conflict without breaking the ideals of what the show is all about," says co-executive producer Rick Berman. "That's one of our rules: You don't mess with Gene's vision. We bend things a little bit, but I believe we bend them in the same way that he would have...
...days go by, Clinton's team must quickly put some detail on these bare outlines. Team members are pondering the mess they will face in Somalia. By Washington's definition, U.S. troops will leave when they have made the country safe for relief efforts. In a letter to Congress last week, Bush said American soldiers would be there "only as long as necessary to establish a secure environment" for humanitarian efforts. "We believe that prolonged operations will not be necessary," Bush said...
...narrators Crystal, Ronnette and Chiffon that make Little Shop such a success. In their dynamic "Skid Row" number in the first act the trio perfectly evokes the ambience of the downtown slum where Little Shop takes place. "Downtown, that's your home address, downtown, where your life's a mess, down on skid row..." they sing while leading a group of bums in a dance number straight out of the Apollo...