Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl leader of the gang, played with edgy, neurotic menace by Broadway Newcomer Karen Black, has a "ather fixation and consequently a poisonous hostility toward her new stepmother. The girl eggs the gang into kidnaping her ten-year-old stepsister, and it is made to seem as if the Filthy Five will go as far as Leopold and Loeb. The rest of the play consists of sick witches while the stepmother is goaded Hit of her wits...
...this makes the Deacons sound like a gang of mute hoodlums, and Charles Sims like the czar of the underworld, it shouldn't. Bogalusa is a strange town, a mean town; the niceties of non-violence seem inappropriate in a place where half the cars fly rebel flags and the radio station announces Klan rallies as though they were church picnics...
Rockwell made a comback hours later when he and his Nazis led a counterrally near the Capitol. Chief attraction was Herb "the Skull" Booker, a representative of California's Hell's Angels motorcycle gang. Booker, who is bald but wears a long beard, declared, "They say we're repulsive. But those peace creeps, they're the ones who are repulsive." He also protested press censorship. "I ran over four peace creeps with my own cycle, and the press didn't say anything about it. If that ain't censorship, I don't know what...
...Lowells were still talking to Cabots, they were probably discussing the topic that dominated just about every other conversation in Boston. The subject was gang warfare, which last week claimed three more lives, for a total of 28 plain and fancy killings since March...
...nation's most notorious blackmailer. He was also a Civil War hero, a talented inventor and a bon vivant. Nearly forgotten since his death in 1920, he re-emerges in this witty, engaging biography by The New Yorker's Andy Logan as a prize addition to the gang of robber barons...