Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recession has dragged on, many West Europeans have begun looking for scapegoats and have found them among their minorities. Suddenly the Turks, Pakistanis and Algerians are no longer individuals: they are Kana-ken, nig-nogs and bougnouls. Occasionally the prejudice goes from verbal violence to physical: a gang attack, an anonymous bullet, a bomb thrown from a passing car. More often racism comes at arm's length: random insults, hostile stares, racial stereotypes held up as universal truths. "Yes, I suppose I'm prejudiced," says a West London matron. "People my age had nothing to do with...
...their informers. It is removed that they had, intentionally set up the last one. Hence, as there are no volunteers for new informers the brigade decides to find its own candilates. They decide on Dede Laffont. Who had once worked for Roger Massina, the leader of the Belleville gang. Dede is a low-key villain who resembles a civil servant more closely than a thugbut had had to leave the gang because of a jealousy over Nicole (Nathalie Baye), a prostitute with whom he was-and is-madly in love. Paluzzi and company decide to somehow, get enough information...
Before Francis Nakano became principal of Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles in 1982, the school was a combat zone. Teachers walked in fear of assault, gangs roamed the litter-strewn hallways, students were arrested for drug dealing, and vandals had just burned the administration building to the ground. The tough new principal changed all that. He painted the school, put in an alarm system, provided enough lunch benches for students to eat sitting down and bought some trash cans. He made each teacher responsible for the behavior of 120 students, and gang leaders were bluntly told...
...their own government, especially on military and foreign policy issues (witness the number of demonstrations against Soviet involvement in Afghanistan). Mr. Louis might recall an incident last year when a group of peaceniks trying to organize a rally in Red Square against the arms race were met by a gang of KGB thugs who presumably hauled them off to a state psychiatric institution to undergo treatment for "social deviance," a term used by the Soviet government to label those who get out of step with the Party line...
Credit Producer Walter Shenson (The Mouse That Roared, A Hard Day's Night) with putting his money where his mind is. He has shepherded Peter De Vries' 1964 novel Reuben, Reuben from page to screen; he has made a film for, and about, the over-the-hill gang. The central character of Reuben, Reuben is a poet, someone for whom words and even the occasional idea matter. For Gowan Evans McGland (Tom Conti), the English language is a weapon to be used against fools, an aphrodisiac with which to ply faculty wives, and a solace whenever thoughts...