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Some people, inevitably, will wonder what the Booker judges could possibly have been thinking. For Paddy Clarke, while intermittently funny, fresh and affecting, is ultimately frustrating. Its hero serves as its narrator, a 10- year-old boy trying, with his gang of schoolmates and other pals, to wreak mischief in their Dublin neighborhood, circa the mid-1960s. Graffiti, whether spray-painted or gouged in wet cement, constitute a major offensive strategy. Another is invading forbidden turf, such as walled-off backyards, where the prospect of a pair of ladies' knickers on a clothesline drives the lads into a frenzy...
...international arms race has become an issue of the past. Unfortunately, a much greater threat now arises: the arms race within America's cities. Some fight gun control in the name of self-defense, claiming that handguns increase their security. The streets would be much safer if neighborhood gang leaders had to undergo background checks before they walked out with...
MICHAEL JACKSON MUSICAL: a myth of an outsider a la Shane. A town is under the thumb of a gang, and Michael Jackson saves...
...death for both black and white teenage boys in America." Later that night, the Senate voted 51 to 49 to forbid the manufacture, sale and future possession of 19 models of semiautomatic assault weapons and their copycats, including the AK-47 and the Intratec TEC-9, favorites of gang bangers everywhere...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Los Olvidados" at 7:30p.m. A gang of young boys fight for survival inthe urban ghetto of Mexico City. "ManufacturingConsent: Part 1" at 9:15 p.m. "ManufacturingConsent: Part 2" at 5:30 p.m. See Thursday'slisting for more information...