Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fragmented times, and any work of the Cinemah that intends to be critically truthful must reflect that fragmentation by making criticism of "bourgeois forms" part of the "data" imparted to an audience. (Every well-meaning cloud-nine intellectual should be required to serve in a factory of a chain gang.) Thus, say Sontag and Poirier, the most important films of the past decade have been the political works of Godard and Rocha, even though these guys are in the baby league as far as politicians go. For my money, the best political film ever made is called Salvatore Giuliano...
...teams of three or more, Ronnie and fellow members of a teenage gang called the Young Mafia worked the west side of Harlem, with occasional forays into The Bronx or even midtown Manhattan. On an average night, they attacked eight victims or "turkeys," taking a total of about $300. Only when the victim resisted was he beaten. "If you hassle me, I get scared," Ronnie explains. One night a record-store owner tried to stop the gang from stealing albums. Ronnie and his friends beat him so badly that he was on the hospital critical list three weeks...
...grow ever more fearful of muggers, Ronnie and his friends find them increasingly willing to fight back. "Before, brute strength was enough," he says. "Now people are running around with hatpins, knives, even guns. You gotta be alert. You gotta know who to take off." Once Ronnie and other gang members followed a man into an apartment elevator, pushed him up against a wall and demanded his wallet. The man pulled out a .45-cal. pistol so they fled...
...wall," he says, "and she might have a heart attack") and people with dogs-of any kind. One night Ronnie and his friends started following a woman walking her Chihuahua. When the tiny dog began barking, apartment lights went on and windows opened up and down the block. The gang...
...West. Drew takes overbearing pride in being an upright Methodist. He struggles to stay on the straight and narrow as his cronies teach him to lie, to steal, to live by his wits and, those failing, his gun. His principles are most frequently mocked and compromised by the gang leader (Jeff Bridges), with whom he strikes up the kind of mutually antagonistic friendship often found in such films of Howard Hawks as Rio Bravo and Red River. Each member of the gang has sworn to share with the others, but as his companions scrounge for a meal-and sometimes...