Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to pin down exactly why the Leverett gang can't meet even these relatively simple challenges. The music alone hints at the exuberance that must permeate other productions. But disappointingly, dancers and actors prance through hackneyed plot twists with situation-comedy blocking, alternately mouthing highflown platitudes and one-liners till any tension, believeable motivation or even logical flow becomes lost in confusion...
...cats do not form Soviets or pyramid clubs to achieve dubious pack goals. While they may pick a top cat, felines do not seem to require rigid hierarchies when a number of them live together. If human, cats might play solitaire, but they would never sit around with the gang and a few six-packs watching Monday Night Football. Their aloof singularity lies at the heart of human fascination with the animal. The cat's wild ways endure and charm. In Japan the cat is called "the tiger that eats from the hand." In her authoritative compendium...
Also, the crowds just don't rate anymore. Last night's attendance was a listless 2059, a far cry from the Standing-Room-Only gang of shriekers and groaners two years ago, including a fair number of Harvard followers. The Crimson cheering section last night consisted of seats four through seven in Row E, Section 4, plus a few scattered singles. How quickly people forget. After all, Walter Brown was Harvard's home-for-a-year in 1978, while Watson rink was transformed into Bright Center...
...from which they spoke. Yet at heart, the dealers remained kids who believed they would never be caught. The downhill slide started when Steinberg directed one operation from a Fort Lauderdale hotel room. Calls to his extension tied up the entire switchboard; a suspicious owner called the police. The gang scrambled out the windows but left behind marijuana, 7 Ibs. of cocaine (value: $180,000) and $1.2 million in cash, plus meticulous account books and records. It took police a year to trap Steinberg...
There are marked differences between right-and left-wing terrorists in West Germany. The left-wing Baader-Meinhof gang, composed mainly of middle-class dropouts, coolly singles out members of the Establishment for attack...