Word: gangsterisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 2Pac and the Notorious B.I.G. six feet under, Dr. Dre and Wu-Tang Clan brazenly shifting towards hip-hop sounds and stars like Snoop Dogg content to churn out uninspired drivel like "Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told," gangster rap is in danger of becoming little more than innocuous dance music...
...playwrights also discussed Hoffa, a movie about the controversial 1970s labor leader, and The Untouchables, about the 1930s Chicago gangster wars...
...architecture and pop culture as well. It set the design standard for what the future would look like. 8: The Wild Bunch (1969) Violence never looked so good. 7: Miller's Crossing(1990). Look into your heart. Sure, this is in many ways a homage to the great gangster movies -- so what? Everything works, and works brilliantly. 6: The Godfather, Part 2 (1974). C'mon -- the fishing boat scene? The abortion speech? Admit it -- this is a better film than Part 1, even without Sonny. 5: Gone With the Wind (1939). How can you not like a film that features...
Finishing lunch, the next stop is RooseveltTowers, one of the few rent-controlled housingdevelopments left in the city. Swaggering outsidein a blue and black Georgetown Bulldogs Starterjacket is R. Jefferson Williams, 19, aself-described Gangster Disciples (GD) member...
...case a Gangster Disciple scheduled to execute a rival returned from his dinner with the Fighting Irish basketball team too guilt-stricken to go through with the murder. Others simply take a liking to a life not spent looking over their shoulder. Brother Bill has other gambits too. Realizing that many gangsters spend countless nights holed up in apartments watching sports on television, he recently introduced them to a foreign concept: the sports bar. Initially they turned to Brother Bill to guide them on unfamiliar turf. Nowadays they freely go to Champions near O'Hare Airport and the Alumni Club...