Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building in Cambridge. The Cambridge Chronicle covered the event, headlining its page-one article "New Teen-age Group Seeks Jobs to Build a Better City." What the newspaper did not tell, however, was that one of the civic-minded fence painters was head of the "Monarchs," a local street-gang, and that all eight of the group had long criminal records. Six months earlier local social workers had labeled them "unreachable cases" and abandoned attempts at their rehabilitation...
Billy Wilder, who wrote and directed Some Like It Hot, is an ingenious man: he plays on erotic fantasies for every taste, manipulating all the tested devices of the "Amazon" movies. Imagine being a jazz musician (Jack Lemmon) who has to escape a gang of Chicago bootleggers because you inadvertantly witnessed the St. Valentine's Day massacre. Imagine that your only traveling to Florida. Finally, picture yourself on a train way out is to disguise yourself and join an all-girls band with nothing but girls, all of them in flimsy negligees, one of them Marilyn Monroe, crawling all over...
...reference to your cover illustration showing Khrushchev leading his gang: Khrush (and the others) aren't wearing their golf caps in the approved style for gangsters -namely: visor of cap drawn down over one eye, snap button undone from its catch, and bag top of cap pulled hard backward, sideward, and downward over one ear-all indicating that the wearer is as tough as tar and twice as nasty...
...part of the crusade, Billy mingled with 123 leaders of East Harlem gangs and their henchmen, gave them a tough-talking half-hour that ranged from sex to the United Nations. Said one leader when it was over: "My gang will go to church tomorrow - or else...
...They have created camps to remove youths from the city during the summer. They have established acting groups and informal classes to show that energies can be re-channeled in learning or in working together. In Spanish Harlem, the American Friends Service Committee has persuaded a large group of gang leaders to abolish their organizations and to set up a Youth Council where they discuss their mutual problems...