Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changeable attitude (or gradual disenchantment) toward directors, ending with a disparaging comment about Mervyn Le Roy. I am sure Kaufman did not intend to be unkind or unfair, but it is hard to accept such disparagement of a man whose credits include I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Random Harvest, Waterloo Bridge and the production of Wizard of Oz-and whose finest credit is that he is one of the gentlest, most civilized human beings around...
...Chinatown detail's first action -against the secret protection societies whose Mafia-like gang wars had terrorized Chinatown-was in the style of the times. The cops descended on tong headquarters with axes and smashed everything in sight. The subsidence of the tong wars was due less to the squad's enforcement than to battle attrition, but the Chinatown detail stayed. Ignorant of Chinese customs and language, the cops often reminded local residents of the tyrannical blue-jacketed officials of the Emperor's court. The detail went undercover-in heavy serge suits, bowlers and handlebar mustaches. Generations...
...Hold on there, gang, before this thing gets out of hand completely! As a woman, wife, mother and full-time student, I am all for equal job opportunities and equal pay, etc. But how about equal share of the blame for the position we're in? Each one of those "male-chauvinist-female-oppressors" had a mother, right? And she probably showed him just how it is done, right? As every freshman sociology major knows, mothers bear the lion's share of their children's "role identification." So, moms of the world, loosen the umbilical cord...
...other gang of 200 has extorted an estimated $50,000 during the past six months. Its leader is Nguyen Ro, 33, a one-legged former master sergeant, who earned 20 medals as a soldier. "All my life has been devoted to fighting the enemy," he says. "When I could fight, the government provided me with a house. But when I was disabled, without any way to make a living, I was chased...
...group called "the New Year's Gang" claimed responsibility for the bombing and promised more explosions unless its demands are met by October 30. Among them: removal of ROTC, the release of three Milwaukee Black Panthers charged with shooting a policeman and, bathetically, elimination of parietal hours for freshmen women...