Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest series of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific, Australia's liberal daily the Australian declared last week, was "committed by a national leadership which displays the moral sense of a gang of street bashers." The words were blunter than most, but the sentiment was echoed around much of the world. After the French detonated their first bomb of the series two weeks ago at the lonely atoll of Mururoa, about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti, Peru broke off diplomatic relations with France. Last week 13 other nations, including Australia, Japan and Canada, sent protests to Paris...
...FIRST talking gangster film, Little Caesar, was made in 1930, depicting the gang wars of the '20s. It made an over-night star of Edward G. Robinson ("Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?") and did smashingly well at the box-office. In 1931, Public Enemy followed suit with James Cagney as Tom Powers, a punk kid who becomes a tough-guy criminal. These movies were stories about gangsters' lives. They professed to deter crime by warning the public about violence in the streets, but managed instead to glamourize the gangster as a rebel hero. It was because...
...artificial. There is a scene between Dillinger and Billie on a wide stretch of plain with huge clouds rolling by that could have been done with the same footage used in a scene in Bonnie and Clyde where Beatty and Dunaway roll in the grass. One of Dillinger's gang steals a car from two young lovers, too preoccupied to notice, just as the Barrow gang did. Dillinger's violence is as bloody as Bonnie and Clyde's, its accents and clothes as realistic. Dillinger's blatant theft is the motif of the vengeful cop, relentlessly pursuing the outlaws, finally...
Aboard the big jet, terror struck swiftly. As the guerrillas prepared to take control of the plane, a grenade exploded in the hand of a woman member of the gang. She died in the blast...
Getting out of a gang can be difficult. Big Bosco would like to retire; he was the leader of the Montgomerys before red-shirted Smokey took over the running of the war with the Norris Avenues. "I'm trying to get out of it," he says, "but Norris says they're gonna kill me, so I might as well stay in for the self-protection." Big Bosco, elder statesman in search of retirement, is 18 years...