Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Side Story, the 1957 Broadway musical about two warring teenage gangs, ends in a hopeful hymn to togetherness: "We'll find a new way of forgiving, somewhere." In the years following, that magical somewhere became in reality a sad nowhere of hard drugs and forgotten loyalties. Now, however, the gangs are back on the streets with a vengeance born of a decade of upheaval. The battleground is no longer Manhattan's West Side but the Southeast Bronx, a predominantly Puerto Rican ghetto where more than 70 "cliques" or "organizations" have formed in the past year. The members...
Although centered in the Southeast Bronx, the gang subculture exists in Brooklyn, Queens and even Chinatown: pitched battles between immigrant Taiwanese and U.S.-born Chinese youths recently resulted in two homicides. In Castle Hill, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the East Bronx, teachers at Adlai Stevenson High School say that a gang of black girls called the Black Persuaders is one reason for a rash of student transfers. The Persuaders' initiation rite requires the new member to beat up a white girl...
James Caan plays Sonny like the Don without his hatch on: he kills with pleasure and screws incessantly--and if he feels he fuels the fires that protect his family, it's his lack of control that starts a costly gang war that ends in his death. Caan's part is different than the other thugs he's played: he animates his body with a high-strung rage barely controlled. When he lets go, dragging a piggish brother-in-law through the streets and bashing his body with a garbage can, the effect is exhilarating...
...plan faces opposition of varying intensity from the myriad companies that benefit from highway building, as well as automobile clubs and state highway officials. Together, these forces make up a powerful highway lobby, jokingly dubbed in Washington the "Highwaymen" or the "Road Gang." Yet some of the major beneficiaries of highway building recognize that changes should and will be made...
...done with Scott's skill, stirs an obvious question: How many novels must be written about the same 15 or 20 characters, moving through the same set of events? "At most, one," is the generous guess. Indeed, a single incident is the work's focus: the gang rape of a young Englishwoman, Daphne Manners, who is attacked by Indians in the Bibighar Gardens in Mayapore in 1942. The wrong men are arrested, including Hari Kumar, Miss Manners' lover, a displaced and dispossessed youth whose brown face makes him invisible to English society, but whose English public school...