Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more fundamental problem. Don Giovanni is at least partly a drama of class distinctions. That is why, for example, the cavalier can simply walk in on the wedding of the peasant Masetto and walk off with his bride Zerlina. When Don Giovanni is converted into an East Harlem hoodlum, the character no longer fits the plot, so Sellars blithely begins changing various details of the story...
...Darryl Strawberry is not a hoodlum who beats up his teammates. For 24 hours, Pascual Perez is not a drug abuser. Just once, Steve Garvey is monogamous...
...imprisonment by the men in the neighborhood, including the narrator's father. None of the combatants realized that they fought over deserted ground. Sheryl, discovering she was pregnant, had been whisked away: "For in these matters, it was well accepted at the time, the girl must disappear and the hoodlum boy never know." That Night, Author Alice McDermott's second novel, deftly balances the ravenous powers of young love against the shelters of community, security, the orderly progress of generations. In the aftermath of the episode that night, the parents in the neighborhood "had only begun to learn that while...
...found one in a theater, and old instincts remaining powerful, he sat down to watch Raising Arizona (Nickelodeon, Harvard Square). Dewitt had intended to visit that fine state on his search, but this film gave him cause to reconsider. Raising Arizona is the story of an incredibly stupid hoodlum (Nicholas Cage), who steals an infant from a local business tycoon in order to placate his infertile wife...
...Bergen Hunt and Fish Club was then the haunt of a smart and sharp young hoodlum named John Gotti. Over the next 15 years, while Giacalone moved from college to law school to a job at the Justice Department, Gotti was moving up through the ranks of the Mafia. Four years ago, their paths crossed more decisively. Giacalone had become an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and Gotti was a feared capo in the Gambino family who ruthlessly ran his empire from the same red brick building on 101st Avenue. Giacalone had just successfully prosecuted four men for two armored...