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...plays an adolescent, whom his family does not understand, who is driven to various deeds of honor. The entire movie takes place during one 22-hour period--Dean's first day at a new high school. During this day, Dean will have to try to win acceptance into a gang at school and solve the problems of alienation. This is accomplished by driving a car vary fast toward a cliff in a game of chicken with the leader of the gang. This kills the gang leader. Dean, however, inherits his girlfriend. He and she then run off to a deserted...
...better education than most members of the street gang he hangs around with in the riot-scarred Liverpool slum of Toxteth. He has three years' experience as a galley boy on merchant vessels and, most important, a declared willingness to work hard. What Steve McGurty, 21, does not have, and is not likely to get, is a job. The merchant marine will not take him because he fell behind in his union dues. The army turned him down because he was fined $37 for being drunk and disorderly after a New Year's party. An architect...
More troubling is the realization that under questioning, even the most sophisticated Angel will recite stories of gang wars won, bullets whizzing overhead and knife wounds to the abdomen. We should certainly wonder whether Sliwa's expansion program will attract public-spirited kids concerned about purse snatchers or toughs who are only too happy to find a sanctioned duty as inner-city commandoes...
...mark in rushing for the season was more widely known and toasted in Washington circles than former President Nixon's infamous "Saturday Night Massacre." And there was never a dearth of stories about how George Allen was creating a winning team out of the well-known "Over the Hill Gang," or how poorly he and Cooke were getting along. (Allen, as almost every football fan in the country knows, will not coach a team unless he has total control over the box office, the front office, and the playing field...
...attended my first Redskins game in years right before I returned to school this fall. The coach is new, the faces are new, and the game is new. The "Over the Hill Gang" has been purged by coaches who believe in young talent rather than hoary experience, and the coaches (I don't even know their names) keep a very low profile. It was one of the most boring afternoons of my life...