Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dartmouth team coming to Cambridge is a one-man gang: attack Brendan Bowler. If the defense can stifle Bowler, the Big Green offense should be thwarted. If he's allowed to score four goals or so, Dartmouth may sneak out of Ohiri Field with a victory...
Slowly, Santana loses control. The gang begins to "eat its own"--killing off less trustworthy members to test the loyalty of the rest...
...representative of all women, Julie is the movie's hero. She endures poverty, works long hours and goes to school. True to her saintly demeanor, she is martyred by Santana's corruption: Her son dies from a cocaine overdose. The gang has been selling bad stuff. Santana cannot return Julie's feelings until it is too late...
Between extended musical sequences, the movie develops at least five different plot lines, involving everything from terrorist lust to a gang of bikers lead by Captain Lou Albano. There's a documentary being filmed about the bar, and a conference call from Elvis, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. There's even a pronouncement about the meaning of life...
Describing the atmosphere as a kind of a "gang mentality" in which he likes to work, Joyce concludes that the group is "very solid," and that everybody is "vibrant about being with each other...