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Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caps leaped out, grabbed and chloroformed Nogrette, threw him into the truck and sped away. The kidnaping stirred up a wave of popular revulsion and inspired the Paris police to one of the most intensive man hunts in its history. The reason: Nogrette had been abducted by a gang of gauchistes (extreme leftists) as the first step in what was announced as a calculated campaign of industrial terrorism in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Aftaire Nogrette | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...always some kind of conquest-or I must be a lesbian. And the lascivious part; the personally devastating things that people will just walk up to you and say. Even male politicians don't get the kind of viciousness that women get as routine. It is like being gang-banged in public. But it has been worth it because of something great out there, not just the pain and anger. Women are learning to respect and love themselves and each other, and there is a lot of joy and communion in knowing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Women's Liberation Revisited | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...filmic bearings. The film shows the limits of crudeness. When it takes an actor three minutes to roll off a provocative phrase like "the old in-out in-out", witty language is killed. When there are no developed antagonisms, and the camera supports the actions of a single group, gang warfare is threatless and meaningless. And, perhaps intimidated by the director's rep, the actors, except for McDowell, deliver the most functional satiric sketches...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Kubrick in Context | 3/16/1972 | See Source »

Outclassing them all was Jackie Robinson. Much of what Kahn says about the Dodger infielder will be familiar to former members of Happy Felton's Knothole Gang. There is Robinson, first Negro in the majors: the racial abuse he endured on and off the field, his testiness, the later tragedy of his son's delinquency and fatal car crash. What Kahn does is rekindle for a younger, less patient generation the pride of a remarkable athlete who wanted to be recognized and paid as such. That Robinson eventually be came a prosperous, overweight Republican has a perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Stand | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...Gang, Roth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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