Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small Minneapolis TV newsroom was dark with disuse when the old gang-Mary Richards and Lou Grant, Murray Slaughter and Sue Ann Nivens, Ted and Georgette Baxter-came back one last time for reminiscence and rue. As clusters of the faithful were doing in living rooms and the classier pubs across the country, the WJM team had assembled to lament the untimely passing of some fine old friends: Louie De Palma, Doctor Johnny Fever, Detective Harris, Mork from Ork. With a few swipes of TV executives' pens, four of the best comedy series of the late 1970s-Taxi, WKRP...
...Waltham Hospital stirred the expected furor. Some observers began questioning whether the doctor had been unfairly treated all along by muckraking journalists. Others raised new doubts when the 12 juniors were informed for the first time that Hussain was convicted last year along with two colleagues of gang-raping a nurse in a Rockport beach house in September 1980. Jury foreman Glenn C. Wright said after the verdict was announced that he would have changed his mind if Judge Andrew G. Meyer '45 had permitted the prosecution to question Hussain about the previous conviction...
...preach that fans of this real-life soap opera should find something better to do with their time. Did the two former Waltham patients decide to press fabricated charges years after hazily remembered run-ins with Hussain only because the learned that he had been convicted of the gang-rape? Was the drunken affair in Rockport a matter among consenting adults, as Hussain and this co-defendants claim, or was it a violent and horrible crime? The latter verdict was "guilty," but members of that jury have since said they had never understood the formal charges and only punished...
...nation's most puissant Mafia family. His son Charley is underboss and chief enforcer for the family, a geratic Brooklyn Mob headed by Corrado Prizzi, 84. Charley, the anti-hero of Prizzi's Honor, is somewhat deficient in the paternal paranoia that has helped earn the gang international clout and an annual gross income of $1.7 billion. However, he took out his first Prizzi foe when he was only 13, and has been earning great respect ever since. He is unswervingly loyal, has a voice like "a talking brewery horse" and boasts "the best bowels of anyone...
...their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French by Sicilian patriots. The overcrowded hall is set afire by a rival gang, and 89 guests are parboiled. "Miraculously, the Congressmen and the judges came through the fire unharmed...