Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weeds, a train engineer jumped by a skinhead pack. described the experience: "I got boots in the back, in the guts, on the head, everywhere. I tried covering my head with my hands, then they kicked my hands. These kids were actually skipping around with excitement." In November, a gang 20 strong invaded a suburban party in Surrey, tore down a garden wall, wrecked furniture and sent eight guests to the hospital. Soccer games bring skinheads flocking, usually with weapons ranging from meathooks and carving forks to chisels and pipes. On a train returning from a match at Coventry...
...getting a bad name, but it still pays at the box office. Ask Director Robert Aldrich. His 1967 movie The Dirty Dozen made millions by drafting a gang of incorrigible convicts into a mission behind enemy lines. Too Late the Hero is a kind of sequel to The Dirty Dozen, based once again on a World War II suicide mission...
...Love Story, Segal (1 last week) 2. The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles (2) 3. Deliverance, Dicket (3) 4. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (5) 5. Losing Battles, Welty (9) 6. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (4) 7. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (7) 8. The Godfather, Puzo (6) 9. The Anderson Tapes, Sanders 10. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow...
...candidate for city council president, Mailer picked Jimmy Breslin, an ex-newspaperman who got so much practice writing fiction as a columnist for the late Herald Tribune that he had little trouble producing the bestselling comic-Mafia novel, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Mailer-Breslin was a ticket compounded of booze fulminate of mercury, and laughing gas It was too volatile to survive. There was also the problem of Mailer's vanity. Near the end of the campaign says Flaherty, Mailer encouraged some of his staff to shave off their beards as a gesture of loyalty...
...Love Story, Segal (1 last week) 2. The French Lieutenant's Woman, Fowles (2) 3. Deliverance, Dickey (3) 4. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (4) 5. Great Lion of God, Caldwell (6) 6. The Godfather, Puzo (5) 7. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (9) 8. A Beggar in Jerusalem, Wiesel (7) 9. Losing Battles, Welty (8) 10. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow...