What happened to the children who were introduced, but then left to pass the pages gambling, fighting or worrying, without our ever coming to know more about them?
"I want to be near the stabbing, shooting, gambling, fighting and unnatural dying," he says in the poem, whose refrain is a rhythmic plea to "scatter my ashes through the Lower East Side".
The first time New York confronted its bedrock to build a subway, in 1900, the method was "cut and cover": nearly 8,000 laborers given to gambling, fighting and swearing were hired to pickax and dynamite their way through streets and utility lines for two miles.
"If there's nothing for young people to do, they can get involved in damaging behaviour like drinking, gambling, fighting and sexual abuse," Martijn says.
"Porgy and Bess" (Columbia) transmuted Gershwin's rendition of loving, gambling and fighting in New Orleans into a subdued, faraway speculation on the power of yearning.
On a typically rowdy evening, three neighborhood ruffians return to the seedy cafe where they hang out all day gambling and fighting and discover that the fourth member of their little clique, a dissipated pimp and street hustler named Tabel (Mahmoud Hemida), has died in his chair.
Speaking on Sky News, Cable said: "The party leader took the gamble of fighting a European election on the issue of Europe, which is a very unusual thing to do in the UK.
But Madigan is taking a gamble by fighting to preserve the current map-drawing system, in which Democrats have substantially boosted their power with maps they drew in 2001 and 2011.
HARTFORD (AP) — A Florida millionaire accused of walking out on a $1.2 million gambling debt is fighting the Mohegan Sun casino in court, arguing that the state judicial system cannot decide the case because the casino is run by a sovereign American Indian tribe.
The tune is a recitation, a series of images: the signs mounted around the place ("House Rules, no exceptions. No bad language, no gambling, no fighting. Sorry, no credit.
The tune is a recitation, a series of images: the signs mounted around the place ("House Rules, no exceptions. No bad language, no gambling, no fighting. Sorry, no credit. Don't ask"), the graffiti in the bathrooms, the gang rivalries ("June bug vs. hurricane"), and the essential amorality of a joint that's an escape, beyond accountability, and where shit happens.
