Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...typical Tartan gang member is Jim Tipping, a long-haired lad of 18 who has a crest of Protestant banners tattooed upon his scarred right arm. The scar is a relic of an I.R.A. gunshot wound that Tipping suffered while walking down a Belfast street six weeks ago. Tipping's gang, the Shankhill Tartans, has hundreds of members, who spend much of their time lolling on street corners and shouting anti-Catholic slogans on Saturday afternoons. They were reared in an atmosphere of sectarian bitterness and bigotry, and their attitudes show it. "I hate them," Tipping says...
There is a lot of youthful bravado in the gang members' words, but like their Protestant elders, the Tartans are gradually becoming more militant. Two weeks ago they marched to the local jail to demand the release of Protestant criminals. As a precaution some wore dark glasses to conceal their features. "If civil war breaks out and they start interning Protestants," explained Tipping, "they are going to remember your face and turn...
...rock, rarely approaching the authentic inanity of the originals. But it is exquisite and excruciating in its details, from the boys' ducktail haircuts, leather jackets and cool, hang-loose slouches to the girls' cinch belts, nylon blouses, ballet slippers with white socks, pedal pushers and black gang jackets with their insignia, The Pink Ladies, pink-embroidered on their backs...
...Nigger Charley is not much of an improvement. The plot comes more or less out of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, minus three. Charley is a freed slave who rides through the Southwest righting wrongs with the help of three companions. At one point, shortly after dispatching a gang of drunken louts in a saloon set-to, they help a white homesteader fight off the attacks of a band of marauding outlaws. Charley develops a yen for the homesteader's half-breed wife, portrayed by a comely young actress named Tricia O'Neill, who represents the only vaguely...
...Maltese Falcon, a 1941 Bogart classic. Brattle Theatre. 6:15, 9:35. With the 1932 I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang. 8, weekend...