Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demons and Goblins. For the first time, Peking last week identified by name "the Big Four Brigands" and "the Gang of Four" who had been the target of the wall-poster attacks: Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Shanghai Mafia" colleagues, Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen, Vice Premier Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan. The New China News Agency announced that the Party Central Committee, headed by Hua, had "adopted resolute and decisive measures to crush the counterrevolutionary conspiratorial clique and liquidated a bane inside the party." Despite those...
Since Mao's death, Hua has assumed leadership of the Communist Party, and many believe has presided over the purge of the "gang of four," leaders of the radical faction that is opposed to Hua and his moderate supporters...
...Chain Gang. Meanwhile, Cartoonist Tony Auth of the Philadelphia Inquirer drew rock breakers in an Eastern European chain gang whispering, "President Ford declared our independence. Pass it on." And the Richmond News-Leader's Jeff Mac Nelly put Carter in a Texas barroom full of jug-eared Lyndon Johnson lookalikes; the candidate points to a portrait of L.B.J. over the bar and asks, "Say, who is that nasty-lookin' snake up there? He sure is ugly...
...drinking partners that Dave says he mooches if the bill exceeds the allotted five bucks, change all the time. Sometimes he accompanies a gang of guys, less frequently a gang of women, sometimes an individual. Sometimes he joins his friends at the Delphic Club (where drinks are cheaper because Club members mix their own), but most often he makes the rounds each week between 33 Dunster Street ("33 D"), Casa Blanca ("Casa B."), The Idler, Ha'Penny, and Cronin's. Apparently not a man of habit, he alternates his drinks--along with drinking partners and locale--mostly between beer...
Truffaut does not turn away from childhood tragedy. One of the Small Change gang, Julien (Philippe Goldman), lives with his mother and grandmother-both violently alcoholic and crazy-in a deserted house. Julien steals, falls asleep in class and does not really encourage friendship. His body is covered with bruises, which are not discovered until he is forced to take a physical examination. The police arrest his mother and grandmother, put Julien under state care until a foster home can be found...