Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: Children gun one another down for fancied slights to a gang's code of honor...
SUBTRACT DRUGS FROM THE bloody San Diego gang scene that reporter Bob Sipchen describes -- go ahead, wave a wand -- and the festering urban mess still would stink of hopelessness. Sipchen, who writes for the Los Angeles Times, uses an African proverb for an epigraph: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." If there is no village of strong adults, only warring teenage street gangs controlling a few blocks of city turf, then the gangs may do the child rearing. Kevin Glass was 10, a clever, skinny black kid already moving from mischief to larceny, when he began...
Danger is frequently part of the urban equation, and this assignment was no exception. To do his job, Suau had to bring thousands of dollars' worth of camera equipment into the most destitute sections of the cities he visited. "Sometimes you almost needed your own gang for protection," he says. In Zaire mourners in a funeral procession threw stones at the car in which Suau and his guide were riding. On one of the major drug-sale corners in the South Bronx, people in the buildings above heaved eggs and rotten food at Suau and the cortege of Guardian Angels...
...PAIR OF WHITE ARKANSAS FIREMEN (Bill Paxton and William Sadler) accidentally come upon a treasure map. Its X marks a spot in a creepy, abandoned factory. As they root in the floorboards for gold, a gang of black drug dealers, whose leaders are played by rappers Ice-T and Ice Cube, turn up to use the place for a murder. Race, greed and venality on all sides soon lead to deadly conflict. There's something bracing about the utter amorality of TRESPASS. Director Walter Hill has something like a genius for staging and editing action in jolting bursts. The movie...
THEY DON'T JUST ROB BANKS, THEY ASSAULT THEM -- FIRING wildly, leaping over counters, fondling the women, shooting at the men. The FBI believes the new bank terrorists are L.A. GANG MEMBERS who pulled off 193 heists last year and 363 so far this year. Agents dubbed the first duo they arrested the Nasty Boys, who are thought to have robbed $800,000 from 28 banks since October 1991. The pair, Clarence Sanders, 21, and Harold Walden, 19, were convicted of five of the robberies in November. Prosecutors and the FBI expect the two to get the maximum penalty...