It is a study of how easily American race relations can still degenerate into violence.
And I think it's still too early to tell whether things are going to degenerate that much.
One of the series' most remarkable achievements comes with the four characters who function as racing's typical degenerate gamblers.
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An art teacher in Kassel created Documenta in 1955 with the aim of unearthing artworks deemed degenerate by the Nazis.
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If we gave away large datasets that cost a lot of money to collect, the data would degenerate over time.
This protein is known also to accumulate in the neurons that degenerate in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
We have allowed English to degenerate so far that we must waste years on it, just like the Egyptians of 2000 BC.
His life, as told by Mr Nasaw, is a cautionary tale of how a young idealist can degenerate into a rancid reactionary.
And even as we uphold these universal values, we do want to make sure that transitions do not degenerate into chaos and violence.
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There remains a risk, of course, that the legislature could degenerate into a factionalist quagmire in which all new legislation remains permanently stuck.
But in this they were helped by Indians remarkable ability to organise themselves in situations which in most other countries would degenerate into chaos.
As things degenerate shortages will develop and hoarding will take place.
When do family discussions degenerate into squabbles and then outright fights?
The new political settlement in Northern Ireland would not be allowed to degenerate into the crude ascendancy of the Protestant majority that prevailed before the Troubles.
We will create entirely new economies to buy the products that the new economic activity and productive capability will generate instead of allowing it degenerate into destructive inflation.
"This could easily degenerate into chaos, " concedes Paul Heitman, a senior program architect at Comverge, which hopes to extend its metering expertise for air-conditioning systems to plug-in cars.
First, any effort to have the IRS police advocacy activities of social-welfare organizations is bound to be clumsy and prone to degenerate into either selective or broad witch hunts.
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Radio and TV debates invariably degenerate into shouting matches.
Most politicians' blogs tend to degenerate into anodyne travelogues.
People don't degenerate into wild animals when disaster strikes.
During World War II, Thomas Olsen hid this "Scream" and dozens of other Munch works in a remote hay barn to protect them from the Nazis, who were torching art they declared degenerate.
"The idea is that perhaps oestrogen is being neuroprotective so that the neurones that degenerate in PD don't seem to be as susceptible to the processes in women as they are in men, " she said.
Feibusch was forced to escape from Germany after his work was featured in the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibition put on by the Nazis to single out the modern style they saw as causing "cultural disintegration".
The World Bank's representative in Zimbabwe, Rogier van den Brink, last Thursday said the country's failure to repay its debts was creating "a fragile situation which could degenerate even further, with severe economic, social and political consequences" for southern Africa.
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