Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last weekend's production of "The Gang's New Threads" raised a few issues that I would like to bring to the attention of the Harvard community...
...glittering enclave of restaurants, shops and theaters in Westwood Village, on Los Angeles' affluent West Side, seems a world away from the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles, where gang warfare took more than 100 innocent lives last year. But the ghetto violence occasionally spills beyond its borders. Last month Karen Toshima, a 27-year-old graphic artist, was caught in * the cross fire of rival drug gangs and died on the sidewalk outside a fancy restaurant. The Los Angeles establishment reacted with horror. Newspapers and television headlined the story for days. Police patrols in Westwood tripled...
Police have made arrests in both cases, but this is not likely to end the debate over life and death in Los Angeles. Not many of the 387 gang-related killings in Los Angeles County last year ended with a press conference announcing an arrest...
...work embarrassingly hard at producing an offspring -- all to help her fulfill her motherly instincts (Jake has a not too hilarious problem with his sperm count). But having been, at best, an ambivalent bridegroom (goodbye novel writing, hello advertising; goodbye sex as sport, hello sex as duty, with Chain Gang for scoring), he has an underdeveloped feeling for fatherhood...
...Gang's New Threads is a rapper's delight, but neophytes will enjoy it as well. It raps to an infectious beat and is certain to wrap up the audience with...