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Word: goon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strauss's partisans are also capable of hard-ball politicking. In Bavaria, a few self-appointed goon squads, some sporting billy clubs, roam the streets, occasionally roughing up people caught defacing their champion's posters with Hitler mustaches and other graffiti. After Film Director Werner Schroeter reportedly suggested that someone should feed Strauss a bomb disguised as a sausage, the city of Augsburg withdrew his commission to stage an opera there. In Regensburg and Munich, some factory workers have been fired for wearing anti-Strauss buttons. An 18-year-old schoolgirl in Regensburg was expelled for refusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Polemics and Poisonous Blossoms | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

Arrests by goon squads, and torture by a vicious junta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: An Argentine Connection? | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...widespread use of torture in the postcoup crackdown as well as the random arrests by roving civilian goon squads suggest that the junta has been getting some expert help in repression from the outside. The most likely accomplice is military-ruled Argentina, which was the first nation to recognize the new regime in La Paz. For years Argentina has maintained a mission of slightly more than a dozen intelligence officers in Bolivia, ostensibly to teach at Bolivian military institutions. Their ranks almost doubled before the coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: An Argentine Connection? | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...took the precaution of getting two radio stars to recommend him by phone. The voices of both actors were played by Peter Sellers. At the BBC he found colleagues who gave lunacy a good name. On radio and film, the members of the Goon Show climbed Mount Everest from the inside, scrubbed a field with soap and took a phonograph needle in hand and ran circles around the record for low fidelity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prime Minister of Mirth | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

Peter Sellars was a perfectionist. He wanted to get the voice right, and then figure out the character. He wanted to poke fun at people but he wanted to say something at the same time. His 1950s radio series, "The Goon Show," The Mouse That Roared, Dr. Strangelove, and Being There did just that. They let him be "ridiculing without being ridiculous; serious without being solemn...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Peter Sellers 1925-1980 | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

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