Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Legal Challenge. To Obstetrician Aleck William Bourne (now retired but a hale 82), this strict regulation seemed outrageous. In 1938 he performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl,who had been gang-raped by horse guardsmen, then invited the Attorney General of England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would...
SEPTEMBER 29 -- Anarchy finds its Genesis in half a dozen people passing out free balloons at the Brattle Theatre in the middle of a Marx Brothers festival during a showing of "Go West." These people are from the self-professed "Andy's Gang" (a group that would later splinter from X in a dispute over structure). They pass out balloons that read "Andy died for your sins," "Good Soup and Andy's Gang," "JFK died for Andy's sins," and "John Lennon uses Andy...
Moviewatchers left clutching balloon strings wince, wrinkle, and cough vacantly into their scarves. The meaning of what is done is obscure. And pretty silly. Unknown, Andy's Gang never makes it big and slips into a proud, if arrogant, oblivion...
...moderate drinkers. The rest either drink sparingly or not at all. Even in Skid Row's inverted social hierarchy-the farther they fall, the bigger they are-the alcoholic is something of a social outcast, scorned and rejected by Skid Row's characteristic drinking fraternity, the bottle gang...
...though he admits to being "an unlettered bum" who has read nothing murkier than Hemingway and Steinbeck, Mr. Breslin is turning novelist. His first novel isn't quite finished, but MGM has already bought the screen rights for $250,000, plus a cut of the gross. Titled The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, it is about the lighter side of the Mafia. To command those prices, Jimmy's agent must be a Sicilian who can shoot straight...