Word: ganges
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great thing about them is that they all have an observant intelligence: they can see how lunatic their enterprise is, how silly they must look pursuing it and how refreshing it is sometimes just to drift away into fantasy. You might call them the gang that couldn't think straight. You might also reflect, in these grim, get-to-the-point times, that this is their strength, and the strength of this endearing movie. God, they say, is in the details. But fun, and the source of our best inspirations, is in the details that at first look irrelevant...
...under a Panama hat in a wagon. And in the barn was a 1911 Stafford convertible ("a rich man's car") with a brass-framed windshield and huge Prestolite lamps. In that grand machine, after plowing, he burned up the road back to Independence, where his indulgences with his gang ran to picnics, theater and poetry. Today's Democrats should be cautious when putting their arms around Harry. He disliked jazz, modern art and most liberals. The mind boggles contemplating what he would have to say about the permissive life- styles of this time. He considered infidelity immoral...
...underground railroad may be impractical, but so are most of the other options available to a young gang banger who wants out. At least Project Freedom is saving lives. Frances Sandoval, founder of Mothers Against Gangs in Chicago, gets tearful phone calls from parents with kids too scared to leave a gang but terrified of staying in. "Unfortunately, there is very little I can offer them," she says. "In most cases it's hopeless unless they can literally pack up and leave. And we're talking about moving to another state...
Surprisingly, even many loyal gang members admit that their ranks would be thinned if quitting wasn't so dangerous. "People want to get out of gangs, but they're afraid of getting whooped," says Enirque Quiroz, 20, a hard-core member of the Latin Kings in Chicago. Quiroz, a lumbering fellow who has been shot at 12 times, jailed five times, sliced in the elbow and the chin and had his hands broken with a bat, is exactly the kind of guy who makes getting out so problematic. Although he acknowledges some qualms about cracking the heads of close friends...
Trying to quit a gang can be hazardous to your health...