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...ever be the last. "The guards can't solve all this fighting," laments one convicted murderer, Kenneth Foutenette. "The only solution is the inmates." Says William Charles, a lanky con in his 20s serving an eight-year sentence: "It's fighting for race. They stab someone, and we get 'em back." Above Charles' sink, like a battle flag, hangs the distinctive red kerchief of the Bloods, a major gang syndicate that runs a lucrative retail cocaine trade not only on the streets of south-central Los Angeles but also inside the walls of the prison. Police detectives report that imprisoned...
DIED. Louise Brooks, 78, jazz-age actress of rare beauty and artless eroticism who animated the silents' stereotype of the flapper in such films as Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926), deepened and darkened her allure in A Girl in Every Port (1928) and reached her apex as Lulu, the embodiment of sexual energy and evil in Austrian Filmmaker G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box and its sequel Diary of a Lost Girl (1929); of a heart attack; in Rochester. Unable or unwilling to accommodate to the Hollywood system, she saw her star fade out by 1940. Her crisp essays...
...This is great. Put this down. The '65 team got the state championship--the first one Odessa won. They just had their 20th reunion, and 70% of 'em graduated from college. Did you get all that...
...warm glow. Beyond the flames is the covered cook wagon, sides of beef hanging outside and a bag of flour sitting within. After wolfing down biscuits, meat and gravy, the six men pull on their chaps and walk slowly to the corral to saddle the horses and head 'em...
...recent anthology, Cowboy Poetry: A Gathering, by Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center in Salt Lake City, turned up about 5,000 poems by contemporary cowboys (known in their slang as waddies) and ranchers. "If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em," says Knox. "I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry." The first poem Knox penned more than a decade ago describes a barroom brawl he lost, and he's been at it ever since...