Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this outside aid has made striking changes in Mongolia. The sweeping mile-high plateau between the snowy Altai mountains and the Gobi desert is now gashed with gang-plowed collective fields, which have yielded so well that last year Mongolia was able to export grain. The trans-Mongolian railroad's locomotives spew sparks among the golden buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide...
...state Ku Klux Klan, Patterson professed astonishment. Said the Advertiser: "If this innocent, this Fearless Fosdick, is so dense that he doesn't know that he is riding around with a Klan chief, how in the world can such a man investigate and bring to book the Folsom gang and the gangsters he talks about...
...Young Savages (Hecht; U.A.) is taken from Evan (The Blackboard Jungle) Hunter's novel, A Matter of Conviction, which chronicled some savage, real-life skirmishes in New York's teenage gang warfare. The film is at its best when at its ugliest-picturing punks prowling their tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn "turf" (territory), or an Italian gang stabbing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death, or the grim subway beating of Assistant D.A. Burt Lancaster, or the switchblade threats on his pretty wife. These scenes were excitingly photographed on location in Manhattan's juvenile jungle, but the plot...
...earnest, persuasive type, Actor Lancaster is assigned to prosecute the murder of a Puerto Rican member of the Horseman Gang by three hoods from the Italian Thunderbirds, one of whom makes animal noises, wears a cape and calls himself Batman. But the prosecutor's personal life keeps getting in the way. He seeks the death penalty, but his wife, a Vassar liberal, played with the animation of a damp Post Toasty by Cereal Heiress Dina Merrill, is dead against capital punishment. Yet the D.A. (Edward Andrews) wants to rev the Thunderbirds right into the chair so that...
...Bogey pictures (the frightening and disgusting homosexual misogynism of Capote's Beat the Devil, for example) there are hundreds, one fears thousands, who percieve only the reasonable superficial escapist qualities of all movies herein, performed delightedly and genially by Bogart, Bacall, the Houstons, Elisha Cook, Lorre, Greenstreet, and the gang...