Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knowing your usual penchant for drawing parallels between events and culture, I'm most surprised that your piece on "The Girl Gangs" of London [Oct. 16] did not point out the striking similarities of their mindless violence-for-kicks with that of Alex and his gang in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange...
Their disguises and slang could have come directly from Alex's own gang. DANIEL R. WALTERS Managing Editor Times-Standard Eureka, Calif...
...Nixon people understand better than any of us that the sun has gone. They are glad of it-it was always too bright-and because they are glad of the darkness. Nixon and his gang of moles have known best how to lead and comfort the millions of Americans who have been stumbling about trying to adjust their eyes...
...merchandisers have tried to do this year. A Republican background paper outlining tactics in New York promotes Nixon's most boring qualities--his "purposeful, sensible national leadership." Boring Nixon is then contrasted with the pimply weirdos of what the backgrounder describes as the "McGovern Crowd," who sound like a gang of ultraviolence freaks out of A Clockwork Orange. The backgrounder notes that it was the "McGovern Crowd" who "humiliated the party leaders at Miami Beach and rubbed their noses in the sawdust of that political circus;" and who "boasted, with adolescent arrogance, that they were the 'new politics...
Guys and Dolls. A Damon Runyon character once bet 5 to 1 for the underdog "Harvards" over the "Yales" in the New London crew races because he figured nothing in life had odds much better than 5 to 4. The irresistable folk of Runyon's Manhattan underworld gang-up with Frank Loesser's superb songs to make this a musical offer no audience could refuse...