Word: gangsterized
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...West Germany last week, Staffer Rudi Treiber of Düsseldorf's Communist daily Freies Volk got a geography lesson. Under the headline PISTOLS AND BRASS KNUCKLES IN CLASSROOM, WEST BERLIN SCHOOLS ARE GANGSTER STUDIOS, Treiber had pointed to the school in the Pankow area of Berlin as a horrible example of just how the West brings up and trains its schoolchildren. In the Pankow school, he wrote, children have been found armed with brass knuckles and guns, while others write lewd poems which they circulate through an organization they call the "Bureau of Love...
...wave of popular demand for housecleaning, he said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." Then the scholarly professor and his successor proceeded to give the island, which has seen plenty of corruption in its time, the most graft-and gangster-ridden government in its history...
...film that is supposedly about criminal psychology, My Six Convicts strives a bit too hard to be something-for-everybody entertainment. Acting honors go to Gilbert Roland, the volatile gangster, and to Millard Mitchell, the laconic safecracker, who has his day of glory in Kansas City opening a jammed vault at the request of bank authorities...
...typical example of anxiety neurosis," he remarked, "is the anxiety of the plaintiff in this case, who wants to recover damages." The courtroom rocked in laughter. "Do not use Americanisms in this court," the judge warned Slater as the vaudevillian warmed to a climax in the best U.S. gangster-film mouthpiece style...
...documentary-like scene of a teen-age audience swooning and squealing at Manhattan's Paramount Theater. But the pleasure drains away in a trite love story involving a nightclub singer (Shelley Winters), and a silly plot leading to a gun battle between Frankie and a gangster in an empty baseball park at night...