Word: ganging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extreme are those who argue that for the word to retain its impact, it must be strictly defined as forced sexual intercourse: a gang of thugs jumping a jogger in Central Park, a psychopath preying on old women in a housing complex, a man with an ice pick in a side street. To stretch the definition of the word risks stripping away its power. In this view, if it happened on a date, it wasn't rape. A romantic encounter is a context in which sex could occur, and so what omniscient judge will decide whether there was genuine mutual...
...sight of a gang of Zulus brandishing traditional weapons is enough to instill terror in the black townships around Johannesburg, where many residents belong to other tribal groups. Local newspapers recently published a photo that shows why. The frame captured a black man in Soweto clasping a spear and plunging it into the back of another black man, who was desperately trying to flee...
...with, say, the Sept. 9 issue of Variety. So let's say The Rocketeer, Disney's no-star action fantasy, will ring the register. And Mike Nichols' Regarding Henry, with Harrison Ford as a lovelorn amnesiac. And Boyz N the Hood, a promising young director's first feature about gang bonding. And -- no, stop! This could take all summer...
...know the story. Tony (Brad Rouse) meets Maria (China Forbes), and it's love at first sight. But her brother, Bernardo (Dean Shapiro), is the leader of the Sharks, a Puerto Rican street gang, and Tony's a member of the Jets, a rival "American" gang. The young lovers want to stop an upcoming rumble, but when Bernardo kills Jet leader Riff (John Ducey), Tony avenges his friend's death by offing Bernardo...
...cheap laugh, but the "Nintendoes" and "Telemundos" are more cutesy than clever. Making the Jets co-ed adds an interesting sexual dynamic and some talent to the Jets line-up (particularly an electric Eisa Davis as A-rab, the "cool" Jet). But, even today, there are very few female gang members...