Word: swelled
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...wave that is costing the government sleep. Police statistics suggest that about 70 teenage gangs, with more than 1,000 members, are prowling the depressed suburbs of southern Auckland. Inspired by violent rap, hip-hop music and L.A. gang culture, they seem destined either to swell the ranks of the more established ethnic or motorcycle gangs, or, perhaps more alarmingly, to create their own equally ruthless organizations. Dubbed the ABC gangs by police, who shorten their two- or three-word names to acronyms, they have been linked to at least eight deaths in the last two years, not to mention...
...making heroes out of poor managers, as long as they lavishly publish our peerless prose. I've been guilty of it myself. I owe my early career to the largesse of Otis Chandler's Times-Mirror Co. and Alvah Chapman's Knight-Ridder. Believe me, those were swell times. And I watched some great journalism being done-but upstairs those companies were failing to defend their market positions and misunderstanding the future...
...Coffee," and lots of impudent attitude, which the revival nicely preserved under John Rando's direction. An expert cast led by Encores! stalwarts Judy Kaye and Walter Bobbie found the fun of bankrupt millionaires and amiably venal cops improbably involved in putting on a Broadway show. It was swell, though I might have preferred Encores! to present Hart and Berlin's next revue, As Thousands Cheer, with a richer score (including "Easter Parade" and "Heat Wave") and a sassier tone. Maybe Encores! skipped it because the show was vibrantly revived in 1998 by the New York company The Drama Department...
...Braveheart effect has served this small city 60 km northwest of Edinburgh well. In a mid-19th century swell of patriotism, public donations helped construct a monument in honor of William Wallace, Scotland's fiercest defender. The 67-m Gothic tower stands atop the summit of Abbey Craig, where Wallace is said to have watched the English armies gathering before he chopped his way to victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. But the American high school students here on a spring afternoon 710 years later are more interested in the 4-m-tall sandstone statue...
...exchange typed-out sexual innuendoes. There is also nothing more offensive than the motivation du jour of partially repressed horrific memories - especially in pictures that glow with glamour-trash aspirations. For that aspect of the story, Rowena gets a job in Hill's agency, which permits her to wear swell clothes, go to fancy parties and engage in flirtatious dialogue about "Hemingway Daiquiris" with Hill, who, his priapic ways aside, seems to be a nice enough...