Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means the glamour and glitz of Hollywood; it means slums teeming with illegal immigrants; it means the hedonism of an appearance-obsessed culture, it means pristine beaches and smogchoked hillsides; it means a postmodern, impersonal city of intertwined freeways and grid-locked streets; it means inner cities blighted by gang warfare and Rodeo Drive...
Mean streets have fascinated Price since his days in the Bronx. He based his first novel, The Wanderers, a violence-laced cult classic about teen gangs that he wrote while a graduate student at Columbia, on the working-class kids he knew in the projects. Price drew on similar material for Bloodbrothers, another stunning tale of working-class Bronx brawlers. But he was never really part of the violence. "I was a member of the Goldberg gang -- we walked down the street doing algebra," he says in an interview in the lower-Manhattan loft he shares with his wife...
...Washington. As a surprised and obviously angry Jackson seethed on the stage, Clinton repeated a Washington Post story that quoted Souljah saying after the Los Angeles riots, "If black people kill black people everyday, why not have a week and kill white people? . . . So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?" Those remarks, intoned Clinton, were "filled with the kind of hatred that you do not honor today...
...offered a small part in the dance movie Breakin' in 1984. "They said they'd pay me $500 a day. S---, I was spending that on sneakers," he laughs. But his street boys, according to Ice-T, wouldn't let him turn down the part. A few of the gang had already been taken down by the police or other gangs. "You got a chance," Ice-T recalls them saying. "White people like you, man. They've got their hand out; you should take it." His second big-screen appearance, as an undercover cop in last year's surprise...
Latest hot item in stores across the country: fashions from South Central L.A.'s Cross Colours. The all-cotton duds sport slogans urging youths to stop gang violence (PEACE N THE HOOD) and stay in school (EDUCATION IS THE KEY). Best message: owners Carl Jones and T.J. Walker's success. They expect to gross $40 million this year...