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Some escapees cannot function in the outside world but are desperate to try. One wheelchair case, angered that his family would not remove him from his nursing home, broke out and was found dead in the Chicago River. But many are streetsmart, eluding police for long stretches, sometimes cadging up to six meals a day at various social agencies...
With the help of a Madison Avenue lawyer named Murray Schwartz. Sliwa has written a book called Streetsmart: The Guardian Angel Guide to Safe Living The paperback has an eye-catching glossy cover photo of Sliwa and some Angels standing on a street in tough-guy poses usually found on the covers of heavy-metal rock albums or comic books. It underscores the way Sliwa has marketed himself and his ideas in a tasteless, often crass manner...
...Streetsmart has tips on how to protect oneself from muggings and robberies: it re-states commonsense wisdom like not remaining in a half-empty subway car if someone starts threatening to rob you, or not walking in high-crime areas alone after dark. Such advice can never be repeated enough, but the style of the book should be carefully noted by both fans and critics of the Angels. Sliwa and Schwartz repeatedly pander to the worst fears and stereotypes held by white middle-class city and suburban dwellers...
...film features Actress-Model Ve-ruschka as a part-time stripper, Dennis Hopper as a misogynistic photographer and brown-eyed Bianca as a streetsmart nightclub impresario and all-round rough customer. The movie's message? "Women don't want to fall in love with the tough hero," says Bianca, "but rather with the child in the man." Got that. Mick...
...four prisoners were in their early 20s−tough, streetsmart, prison-wise. They compared jails the way Yalies compare prep schools. They shied away from pointing to specific causes for the fight. "All the tensions just came out," said Earl Moore, Pontiac head of the Disciples. Gang rivalries had been going on for some time. According to the leaders, each organization had preserved some form of identification−either a private greeting that members gave each other or special berets or insignia they were permitted to wear. Fights that normally would have remained disputes between two individuals exploded into confrontations...
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