Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta, six by gunfire. In Detroit Beach, Mich., a woman watching her four-year-old grandson at play saw him stabbed to death by a teenage boy who was apparently after the 40¢ that the child had in his pocket. In New York City this spring, police charged a gang of six teen-agers?one of whom was 13?with murdering three elderly and penniless men by asphyxiation. One man died with his prayer shawl stuffed into his mouth...
...majority of criminals are male, but an increasing number of females are joining their ranks. Of those arrested for larceny-theft last year, 33% were female. Women are also becoming more violent. In the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, a gang of young black women has been assaulting and robbing dozens of old people for the past six months; two victims died of heart attacks that resulted from beatings by the gang...
...Last Picture Show), everything finally paid off. "If you look carefully," Fields points out, "you will see blue sky in one segment of a scene, cloudy sky in another, choppy seas in one scene, glassy in another." No one will feel detached enough to notice. The movie moves like gang busters, so fast that none of the mismatches really show. Even Bruce looks like a star. "Except when he heaved himself out of the water-when he had a plastic look -I was quite surprised by how genuine he seemed," confessed Documentary Film Maker Peter Gimbel, who was familiar with...
...parents encouraged her to try art school, but Margaux was too energized to buckle down and took off after a year for Europe. Her adventures were just as lively, if less genteel, than Lorelei Lee's. In Morocco, she was "sorta kidnaped" by a smuggling gang who made her into an unwitting hash courier. Fortunately, a friendly mechanic ("He was just snappin' ") sniffed out the fact that her car was mined with hash. Recalls Margaux: "It was really veggy" (translation: Margaux could not move or think...
...said, would be to "reestablish law, order, tranquillity, and thus self-confidence." The combatants, exhausted after eleven days of fighting that had taken at least 120 more lives, began to disperse their private armies. But at week's end a Palestinian youth was shot down by a street gang, and suddenly the city was again a battleground. South of Beirut, a Christian village and a Moslem village exchanged rocket and mortar fire; a merchant in the Christian community was killed. It is thus clear that Karami's first mission-re-establishing order-may be his hardest...