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From moonlit skirmishes between pioneers and Cherokee to daylight thievery by speculators and tame judges, from Civil War marauders to union-busting goon squads, from the last gasp of industrial fever to the fresh air of environmentalism -- Robert Schenkkan's THE KENTUCKY CYCLE, playing at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, aspires to no less than a history of the U.S., spanning two centuries in seven hours. If his view of the past is cruel, his factual grounding is solid. But what makes the work so hauntingly memorable is a poetic impulse, not a prosaic one. He confines...
Steve. Flo. "That Goon...
...Sweaty, hairy things! They think every problem can be solved with either fists or power tools, and they don't know how to shop, cook or listen. In so many modern movies, a guy is a goon with a grudge, a hyperactive child on steroids. The summer blockbusters show how he can die hard or douse a forest fire or terminate the bad guys. But he still needs educating, humanizing. Why, with a woman's touch, a man can be a mensch -- warm, winsome, wonderful, wuvable and all those other sweet w adjectives. Also, in Hollywood's late-summer films...
...young defense held the Engineers attack--which netted eight goals at Bright Center on December 8--scoreless for the final 35 minutres of the game. Neither Joe Juneau, who entered the game the country's leading scorer, nor Bruce Coles, who entered the game the nation's leading goon, scored a goal...
...Juneau (22-35-57), Rensselaer's leading scorer, is a legitimate Hobey Baker candidate, leading the nation with 2.478 points-per-game. Coles (20-25--45) leads the ECAC in penalty minutes (121) and has traditionally given the Crimson trouble with his goon-like play...