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...down to their existential bone and gristle. Like Hemingway's, his laconic style can be come mannered to the point of self-parody, as it was in The Driver. But when he is good, as he was in the prizefighting film Hard Times, or last year's gang-war epic The Warriors, there is a hard purposefulness about his work that avoids macho sentimentality and easy moralizing. He is at the top of his form in The Long Riders...
...civil rights movement" by Nat Hentoff, Rustin worked as an organizer of the Congress of Racial Equality and director of the first New York City public school boycott. He has been arrested 23 times for the causes of civil rights and peace, once spending 22 days on a chain gang in North Carolina. Since 1964, he has served as executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, a service center and clearinghouse for civil rights groups...
...Neill's father was sewer commissioner, a friend of his ran the water department." Hard on the heels of the Irish, the Portuguese, the Italians and the French reached the far shore of the Charles. "Between them, they took all the power away from the silk-stocking gang," Vellucci says with a chuckle...
...longer stands in Scollay Square, and I don't much regret it. I went only once and sat directly under the edge of the first balcony. The men up there were not very gentlemanly. Some were chewing tobacco and used the area below for a spittoon. Most of my gang left before the girls onstage finished taking off their clothes...
...reason for Agnew's downfall, of course, was the liberal press--"I remember how enraged I was when I saw on television a gang of scruffy looking characters proudly carrying a Viet Cong flag down Pennsylvania Avenue, while a national network commentator ran along beside them with his microphone deferentially extended for whatever seditious statements they might choose to make." Not only did the press insist on covering both sides of the issue when one of them should have been "justly condemned for being traitors," it also slanted its depictions of the Vice President. One reason for the press' hostility...