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...such diverse sources as '40s hipster, '60s hippie and even cockney rhyming slang (Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn's crime-haunted Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, is "Do or Die"), rapper flash is eclectic. The jeans, the leathers, the heavy personalized belt buckles, even the jewelry, are modifications of street-gang uniforms. A lot of the aggressive energy that once went into street fighting now goes into competitive dancing, like "breaking," an elaborate and athletic choreography of splits, handstands, spins, acrobatic turns and assorted outrageous maneuvers. Breaking has already attracted mainstream attention, but uptown it is being overtaken by newer dances...
Northerners inclined to dismiss the case as the atavistic behavior of a small Southern town should keep in mind the murder of 30-year-old William Atkinson in Boston last spring. Atkinson, a maintenance worker, was with a friend when the two were attacked by a gang of bottle-throwing white men, who chased Atkinson into the Savin Hill T station. As he fled down the tracks in terror, Atkinson was struck and killed by an oncoming train...
That rape, and especially gang rape, is a crime of terrifying seriousness need hardly be repeated. But the particularly heinous and peculiar nature of this rape merits special attention. This rape had an audience. In fact, there were at least a dozen men in Big Dan's Tavern that night who watched and cheered as the victim suffered. Not one man, not even the bartender, moved to stop the rapists. No one called the police. Their reaction, or rather lack of one, to what must have been a gruesome spectacle is more than reprehensible it is mind-boggling...
...Francisco's big homosexual community, GOD SAVE THIS QUEEN buttons were popular, and on Thursday night at Kimo's Bar, a gang of happy transvestites held a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike contest. "It's a tribute to her," said Lee Raymond, whose dress, pearls and handbag were well chosen...
Seattle police quickly seized two suspects, but refused to say where, or precisely what led to the arrests. Officials suggested that robbery could have been the motive for the violence and had no evidence that a gang vendetta was involved. The only known survivor was too seriously wounded to tell his story and was heavily guarded in his hospital room. Said a neighborhood woman, as police and reporters sought details: "This is Chinatown. Nobody knows anything...