Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rock throwing, fighting, drugs, drinking and backseat sex have replaced good old-fashioned gawking. Police say the motorized mayhem puts a drag on protecting the rest of Modesto. "I've seen them take weapons and drugs from the kids," said Mayor Carol Whiteside. Last fall there was even a gang-related shooting...
...crime, some prominent women have openly acknowledged that they were victims of sexual assault. In a law-review article, Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis' campaign manager, admitted she had been raped. So did actress Kelly McGillis, co-star of The Accused, a grimly realistic film based loosely on the 1983 gang rape of a woman in a New Bedford, Mass...
...Contract and A Zed and Two Noughts revealed his gifts as a creator of murals on the subject of ruthless gamesmanship. His stories are hot, his style cool. His new film is the tale of a vicious crook (Michael Gambon) who dines nightly at a posh restaurant with his gang and his luscious, abused wife (Helen Mirren). Her pleasures are furtive but sweet: between courses she tiptoes out of his sight and has lovely sex with another diner (Alan Howard). When the thief discovers them, there is hell to pay. At the end, she exacts a more infernal price from...
...mastermind collector. But it seems unlikely. Apart from a Greek plutocrat who tried, and failed, to commission some heavies to lift a Raphael from a museum in Budapest in 1983, no trace of this glamorous fiction has ever been found in real life. This was more like the Gang That Couldn't See Straight -- which soothes no anxieties about the fate of the heisted artworks...
What do Rhett, Scarlett and the burning of Atlanta have to do with California Cabernet? Frankly, my dear, absolutely nothing. Still, Fujisankei Communications Group is betting that the gang from Tara may hold the key to marketing American wines in Japan. The company has uncorked a new line of four California wines to be sold in Japan under a Gone With the Wind label. It hopes to capitalize on Japan's near obsessive love for the 1939 epic, which company official Tsutomu Nakamura describes as "a symbol of American culture and an unforgettable dream of youth...