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Word: gang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other guards could reach him. He was dead, his hands shackled behind him and half a dozen stab wounds in his chest. Investigators doubt that the would-be escapees who took him hostage had done it. They suspect three Chicano convicts, one a member of Los Carnales, a prison gang whose membership requirement is a past murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hellhouse Becomes a Madhouse: New Mexico State Penetentiary | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...operating budget has been boosted by 39%. Overcrowding, considered a partial cause of the riot, has been alleviated: the prison population is down from 1,157 to 675. Still, a third of the convicts remain housed in army-style dormitories, an arrangement that many penologists say breeds conflict and gang rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hellhouse Becomes a Madhouse: New Mexico State Penetentiary | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Kitaj's works from the '60s, like The Ohio Gang, set forth dramatic melanges, Bertolt Brecht plus Constructivism plus Al Capone-irresistibly nasty stuff, Neue Sachlichkeit run through a fragmented lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Edgy Footnotes to an Era | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...Minnesota, the Philadelphia Eagles became the final team to lose its undefeated status, as the Vikings shocked Dick Vermeil's gang, 35-23. Minnesota quarterback Tommy Kramer passed for 246 yards to lead the Vikings to their fifth straight victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pro Roundup | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...plays an adolescent, whom his family does not understand, who is driven to various deeds of honor. The entire movie takes place during one 22-hour period--Dean's first day at a new high school. During this day, Dean will have to try to win acceptance into a gang at school and solve the problems of alienation. This is accomplished by driving a car vary fast toward a cliff in a game of chicken with the leader of the gang. This kills the gang leader. Dean, however, inherits his girlfriend. He and she then run off to a deserted...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Two American Actors | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

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