Word: goon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night style. Talk-show monologues may still lean heavily on the latest TV mini- series, Rob Lowe's videotape and beautiful downtown Burbank, but more and more they are turning for their yucks to real-life politics. Johnny Carson, who slides easily from Doc's wardrobe to Noriega's goon squads in his Tonight show monologues, has long been TV's most reliable barometer of what Middle America thinks about the issues of the day. But now Johnny is just one of a late-night crowd. Jay Leno, Carson's regular fill-in as Tonight host, has added a sharp...
Penn's Hassan Duncombe lived up to his reputation as the Ivy League's "Goon," getting involved in scuffles with Harvard's forwards, especially freshman Ron Mitchell...
During Schaeffer's day, Lynah Rink was known as the Goon Dome...
...long Angela has lived in a domestic cage with rococo bars and gilded walls. Her husband Frank "the Cucumber" De Marco (Alec Baldwin) boards the morning Long Island commuter train, but he does his work in transit, putting a bullet in the brain of a rival Mafia goon in the seat ahead of him. Angela has a cute son, but the kid runs a three-card monte game in the backyard. Her home must have been decorated by Wheel of Fortune: all the furniture and appliances are studiously ugly, and half of them are still in crates. As she tells...
...result, the Bruins were trying to "get" Ron Hextall, a shameless exercise which resulted in a couple of interference minors, but nothing else. For all the times the Bruins were violating Hextall's goal crease, it was surprising that the Flyers didn't try to "goon" Doug Keens according to the ancient reciprocal code...