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...time Aaron came on the case, the survivors of that old gang of Inman's had long since scattered. But the professor soon came to find interviews unnecessary. "Nobody can tell me anything I don't know about him," he says. "I just know him. I can predict his response to anything. Anything. I don't think many people have had such an experience. I certainly know him better than any member of my family...
...Michael Douglas), the genius director, must brood in heroic silhouette. Cassie (Alyson Reed), Zach's former love, must mope and cower before getting to sing a strong What I Did for Love. Pretty soon this film has all the zing of The Iceman Cometh as performed by the Fame gang. Once upon a time--for one day only, Sept. 29, 1983--there was a perfect production of A Chorus Line. To celebrate its new eminence as Broadway's longest-running show, Bennett assembled some 330 Chorus Line veterans, radically rethought every number and provided a legendary theatrical event. Alas, only...
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when juvenile delinquents were called juvenile delinquents, youth gangs stuck close to home and defended their turf against invasion by other gangs. No more. The age of the mobile youth gang has arrived. Striking out from poorer neighborhoods, they are fanning into wealthy areas and often faraway towns, breaking into jewelry stores and snatching wallets from pedestrians...
While present to some extent in a number of big U.S. cities, the mobile predators are most evident in the Los Angeles area, where police have identified no fewer than 450 gangs with more than 45,000 members. This represents a 25% rise since 1980, fed largely by the city's influx of Asians and Hispanics. Says Kelly Preseley of the Los Angeles Community Youth Gang Services Project: "It's a mobile society, and this is freeway paradise...
...mobility is partly brought about by greater gang wealth from trafficking in cocaine and other drugs. This translates into cars, sophisticated weaponry and access to air travel. Last October four jet-age thieves ranging in age from twelve to 18 flew from Los Angeles to Seattle and robbed a jewelry store of more than $300,000 in gems. One was arrested at Seattle's airport, but the others presumably grabbed a return flight home...