Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outsiders were always more hyped about politics than the gang at Toad's. The surprising success of the Iowa State University basketball team (14-9 this very moment) and the equally surprising defeats of the University of Iowa (10-13) have been topic No. 1. There's been a little Olympic palaver, and when the battleship New Jersey opened up on Lebanon, that was a priority conversation...
...prison guards last August, escaped, and later broke into another prison to free Allan Heyl, 31, a friend. The three quickly began knocking off banks, some 20 of them, as many as four in one day. As they hopped from bank to bank, they became known as "the Hopper Gang." Their net: an estimated...
...movies in five years in which she played a succession of teenyboppers, Diane Lane, 19, has graduated. For her next role in Streets of Fire, a film that is being billed as a "rock-'n'-roll fantasy," Lane portrays an adult singer who is kidnaped by a gang of biker-thugs. "Hormones have happened," explains Lane. "I'm past the growing-up stage." In Lane's most recent movie, Rumble Fish, she was saddled with the unbecoming part of a wayward outsider, a tough adolescent in tarty makeup. Says she: "I can't tell...
...with Terms of Endearment. But from the moment the curtain rises on Peter Larkin's cathedral of a roller rink, the spectator knows he is in for 2½ hours of big themes and outsize emotions. By the end of the first act, Anna has re-enacted her gang rape by a trio of punks; at the end of the second and final act, Angel releases a cascade of personal traumas involving her father, her dead boyfriend and a surprise-package daughter. The rink that was to be razed is literally raised: the set disappears into the flies...
...Eric won dubious international fame by claiming that he had been divinely chosen and compounded it by urging the United Nations to look into UFOs. More alarming, he backed up his mysticism with despotism, choosing to police the island with an unruly pack of thugs known as the Mongoose Gang. After a five-year exile, mostly in San Diego, Gairy returned home last month claiming that he had no designs on the leadership and insisting that he had developed "better respect for moral values." But his sense of divine mission could shift at any moment. Most Grenadians believe that...