Word: goon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small signs that the Sandinistas are growing more self-confident is the disappearance of roving goon squads from Managua streets. The gangs were used to rough up antagonists to the regime and break up opposition political rallies. Now the Sandinistas claim that freedom of assembly is being respected. They also say they are drafting a law that will guarantee a role for opposition political parties, in theory at least. Such progress, however, is likely to be limited as long as the Sandinistas can claim that extraordinary domestic measures are needed to confront foreign threats. Through their protests and actions last...
...however, that he doesn't have a reputation as an enforcer. "I don't know; if I have to help a player out I will. But I'm just going out there to play my game...I've established myself in the league. People know I'm not a goon. But I'm a physical player. I think my playing is opening up some people's eyes," he says speaking figuratively...
...near the Silesian city of Katowice resisted martial law, it was the members of ZOMO who opened fire. The government admits that eight miners were killed in the incident. ZOMO forces reportedly attacked even doctors and nurses who had arrived to take wounded miners to the hospital. When the goon squads indiscriminately swung their batons at protesting teen-agers in Cracow, they drew shouts of "ZOMO-Gestapo...
...becomes Frank Sinatra, leaning on the plano with a drink, entertaining the nobility but keeping his distance. James Goldstein as Orsino, the duke who pines for the love of Olivia (Gaye Williams), is a Casablanca Bogart, white dinner jacket and all. The allusion makes his slow transition to lovesick goon particularly hilarious when he takes to staring soulfully into space, smoking cigarettes from a gold case and obliviously blowing clouds of smoke into the face of Viola (Caroline Isenberg), who, from under her disguise as his servant, gazes just as wistfully...
...reason For Your Eyes Only seems a little less brawny than recent arrivals in the Bond series was an inadequately evil set of villains. "Jaws," the goon of recent Bonds, has mercifully departed, but he has not been replaced by anyone of commensurate ghoulishness. One hit man, in fact, bears an uncanny resemblance to Rob Reiner, Archie Bunker's meat-head son-in-law and a decidedly unterrifying figure...