Word: streetsmart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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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