Word: boyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...They deliberately misread his remark - no he didn't actually call them a bad name, which they take to be a synonym for "whores" - but it doesn't matter. There's a classroom confrontation with an African student who rises to their defense, blood is accidentally spilled and the boy is threatened with expulsion - which in his case means expulsion not just from school but very likely, given his father's sternness, from France itself...
...July 2008 incident: "Officers from Ozark, Missouri used Tasers 19 times on a 16-year-old boy who was lying next to a highway, injured after apparently falling from an overpass: he was reportedly 'refusing to cooperate' with officers and shouting. His parents said he was unable to comply because of his injuries, which were reported to be a broken back and heel. An investigation by the Missouri State Police and county prosecutor reportedly cleared the officers of any wrongdoing in their use of stun guns on the boy, who they believed was under the influence...
...absolutely the real reason. It's not like it would have conflicted with the election. That's like Pluto competing for planetary status with Jupiter. There's no real contest. It was more that it had become cutesy. It became a gimmick. It became a "vote for Fall Out Boy" thing. And to me, more than any other election I've had the chance to participate in, this wasn't a cutesy election...
...Soon he started making good on my bet. Within a few years, Rourke had won starring roles in a bunch of fascinating weirdies: Francis Coppola's Rumble Fish (Mickey was Motorcycle Boy), The Pope of Greenwich Village, Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon, the S&M erotic drama 9 1/2 Weeks, the satanic thriller Angel Heart (De Niro was the Devil), as a gangster in Elephant Man makeup in Johnny Handsome and a lowlife genius in a film of Charles Bukowski's Barfly. The guy was sexy, dangerous, adventurous in his choice of roles. The actor's clich...
This ignominious group has had some high-profile recent entrants, including Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who was charged in October with operating a $60 million Ponzi fraud, and former boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman, who in addition to foisting N'Sync on an unsuspecting public also stole $300 million in investor capital over two decades. Earlier this month, Minnesota businessman Tom Petters was indicted by a federal grand jury on 20 counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering stemming from his alleged role in a 13-year, $3.5 billion Ponzi ring. Still, the $50 billion fraud Madoff allegedly perpetrated...