Word: goonish
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Republican party • zombieness of is pointed out by lifelong member of, who also notes its "goonish intolerance" and "halitosis of self-righteousness...
...Herbie”’s world. Check out how studiously the film denies Lohan any real agency as she takes to the racetrack over her father’s quasi-sexist objections. It’s not her making those hairpin turns past goonish rivals, or even deciding to—it’s that darned Herbie, racing off with a mind of his own every time she starts the ignition. “I’m being carjacked by my own car,” she shrieks. Girl power...
...toughest skater ever to enter the rink. He's tougher than Todd Eldredge, tougher than the Russians, tougher than Tonya Harding. Consider: the big rumor in Canada says that last summer Elvis Stojko, figure skater, 5 ft. 7 in., 158 lbs., got into a bar brawl with Eric Lindros, goonish hockey star, 6 ft. 4 in., 236 lbs.--and that Lindros got the short end of the stick. Never mind that everyone denies it happened. The point is, people believe it might have happened. It's like Tiger taking out Tyson...
...Chicano mining town in the southwest. The strikers themselves form the cast for this extraordinary documentary which conveys in all its intensity the importance of union struggles for people who face the entire weight of a discriminatory and oppressive society arrayed against them, from mineowners to the goonish forces of law and order they control. But the unusual aspect of this film is its focus on women's participation in the strike: when the somewhat macho Chicano men are forbidden to picket by court order, the women go out on the line and win the strike...
Heading the list of Blue's unacknowledged credits is Easy Rider, with all its patchwork imitations. The script concerns a sawed-off Arizona motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) who yearns to achieve style and respect by becoming a detective like Marve Poole (Mitchell Ryan). His goonish partner Zipper (Billy Green Bush) laughs at his aspirations, but their discovery of the body of a desert old-timer who may have been associated with some drug traffic gives Winter-green the chance to prove his stuff...