Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...review, Octavio Paz described Los Olvidados as "implacable as the silent march of lava." I can't imagine a more apt metaphor to convey its impact. Famous scenes: the gang of young boys tormenting a blind man; Pedro's dream (more powerful and more complex than any described by Freud); the "second chance" offered by the liberal reformatory...
...Crimson squash team's unbeaten string went the way of the Walton gang on Saturday as the racquetmen fell to an experienced Princeton squad...
Mancuso was one of eight members of a Mafia-style gang arrested last week in coordinated raids in both Calabria and Rome on charges relating to the kidnaping of Eugene Paul Getty II, 17, grandson of the American oil billionaire. After almost six months of captivity, young Getty-minus his right ear-was released last month when his grandfather paid $2,890,000 in ransom. The kidnapers, following an old custom of Calabrian bandits, had cut off his ear. They then sent it to a Rome newspaper to convince his grandfather that they meant business...
...Actress Gail Harris. Mrs. Harris was at first wary of cooperating with the police out of fear of jeopardizing her son's life. When the police secretly tapped her telephone, they heard a man with a Calabrian-Sicilian accent calling to negotiate the ransom for her son. The gang demanded $ 17 million but finally settled for $2,890,000. To deliver the money, Billionaire Getty, who lives in England, sent to Rome a tall, craggy-faced American, identified by Italian newspapers as Fletcher Chase, 54, of San Diego. Chase packed 52,000 banknotes in lire into three sacks...
Sacks of Lire. Then, carefully following the kidnapers' instructions, Chase, in a rented car, headed south on the autostrada toward Naples. Just after passing Lagonegro, south of Naples, members of the gang pulled up alongside in a Citroën and pelted Chase's car with pebbles while the men inside rubbed their fingers together as a signal for money. Chase got the message and pulled over to the side. While he was handing over the sacks of lire, a car driven by a Rome detective with a pretty blonde policewoman at his side halted near by. Pretending...