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While the vanguard of this scene may have passed into their 20s, the audience is largely high school. The boys may like to imitate the cocky flash of what a graffiti artist named Phase 2 calls "the stickup kids," but most of them score their clothes as gifts from parents or-goodbye to another bit of downtown mythology-pay for them with money from part-time jobs. Clothes in this culture are seminal enough to work hard for. "People tend to think if you're poor, you're not supposed to have anything," Phase 2 says. "But when...
Last week, as Dorfman and Irwin Weiner, his former partner in Mob-connected enterprises, walked to lunch through the parking lot of the suburban Hyatt Lincolnwood Hotel near Chicago, two men wearing ski masks ran up behind them. "This is a stickup!" yelled one. But obviously it was not. The man opened fire immediately with a .22-cal. handgun, hitting Dorfman in the back of the head seven times. As the attackers fled, Dorfman lay dying in a pool of blood. Weiner was uninjured...
...Stickup 48 HRS. Directed by Walter Hill Screenplay by Roger Spottiswoode, Walter Hill, Larry Gross and Steven E. de Souza...
...York City, a 16-year-old bank robber was dashing down the street clutching a bag of stolen cash when it suddenly exploded, spewing tear gas and splattering the young bandit with red dye. Within minutes the bleary-eyed and brightly marked teen-ager was apprehended. His stickup had been foiled by a tiny package that one bank manager calls "the state of the art in bank security systems...
...they were from, what they did-I mean, who cried and who didn't cry." An ex-grunt remembers a godlike feeling: "I could take a life, I could screw a woman, I can beat somebody up and get away with it." Another returns home to join a stickup gang: "It wasn't the money with me. I was doing things for a handshake. I wanted the adrenaline pump...