Word: grim
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Gotti was born in the Bronx, the son of a construction worker who was equally at home on a building site and in a street brawl. When he was twelve the family moved to Brownsville, near East New York, the grim neighborhood whose mean streets gave birth to Murder, Inc. The young Gotti got involved with local gangs and, though he was a clever student, was suspended from school in the eighth grade. He never went back. The streets became his sole education...
Early in the second half, Northeastern, taking advantage of five succesive penalty corners, flung a barrage of shots toward the Harvard goal. Three of those shots slipped past Katsias, who was charging out of the goalie's box on the penalty corners. But on each occasion defender Jane Grim slipped into position to deflect the shot...
Shultz sat grim-faced through Shevardnadze's speech. He later told reporters he welcomed the Soviet proposal for eliminating nuclear weapons, "something President Reagan has long advocated...
...touch of contrivance in the drama of Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Lutfi flying home last week from London, where he had met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to preside over a midnight Cabinet meeting to approve the Taba agreement. But it was a welcome change from the grim tales of hijacking, kidnaping and wanton murder that so regularly emanate from the region. If nothing else, the Taba agreement and the Alexandria summit demonstrated that even in the Middle East, common sense can sometimes...
...show has a grim, pounding energy, a bracing sound track that mixes Todd Rundgren with early rock (Del Shannon has rerecorded his hit Runaway for the show's theme) and an impeccable cast that seems to have emerged from the street, not a Hollywood casting call. Mann and Director Abel Ferrara indulge in few of the stylistic flourishes of Miami Vice but revel in the shadowy bars and gleaming tail fins of their seedy milieu...