Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke Ellington feel at ease taking the A train 2 1/2 miles north from midtown Manhattan to black Harlem? Not if he believed the vision this New York City community conjures up in the minds of apprehensive whites: a postnuclear landscape of poverty and blight, where crack dealers plan gang wars in cratered tenements. To most Manhattanites from the wealthy southern part of the island, Harlem hardly exists, except as an old, obscure head wound -- the beast in the attic, a maximum-security prison for the American Dream's unruly losers. Why would a white person go to this Harlem...
...minor and California Penal leagues. Now coming to bat: the veteran catcher on his last legs (Tom Berenger), the Willie Mays wanna-be (Wesley Snipes), the pampered third baseman (Corbin Bernsen). And on the mound, a fastballer (Charlie Sheen) with control problems on and off the field. With this gang, in this comic fantasy, the Tribe can't lose...
...NCAA's tremendous commercial growth has been achieved at the cost of academic and ethical standards. Scandal is common--something as grotesque as the alleged gang rape case this week involving several Oklahoma football players doesn't even cause much commotion anymore...
...violence, a stretch in a work camp, virtual gangsterism in the cemetery where he works as a gravedigger, and a dangerous weakness for vodka. There are performances of enchanting sweetness from Anton Tabakov as a young co-worker and of feral malignity from Valeri Shalnykh as a mock-friendly gang enforcer. But the most memorable scenes show Sparrow alone with his cacophony of fears, climbing arduously up to a bell tower where he can hear the euphony of wind and birds and a distantly remembered lullaby, until a screeching train cuts off his reverie. Emotive yet astringent, these are moments...
...worst thing there, of course, was the time when the gang came up from Boston and smashed all the windows of all the stores in Harvard Square," he says. "It was the most horrible thing you can imagine--glass, destruction all over, and why anybody in their right mind would do that--I mean, I thought people had gone crazy...