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...counter Harvard's superior skills, Brown rolled out its version of the Hanson Brothers from "Slap Shot". For the uninitiated, they were the goon squad of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey club, the movie's subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Out at Ohiri | 11/13/1996 | See Source »

Which is fine, but this movie tries to be serious about it, saying that Lowe discovers himself by thumping Thunder Bay's chief goon. It works about as well as a Lit & Arts class would about...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Reel-Time Skating: Great Stick Flicks | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

...family spice business, nearly destroyed by the bitter squabbles of one generation, is rescued by the next and eventually transformed into a fantastic and far-reaching crime syndicate. Moraes is betrayed by a beautiful vixen, imprisoned, and then released on the condition that he go to work as a goon for his father's rival crime boss. Aurora Zogoiby, mother to Moraes, becomes a celebrated painter, her paintings stolen, burned, hidden, fought over...

Author: By David J.C. Shafer, | Title: Rushdie Stuns with Last Sigh | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

...view would be that we would prefer that noaction be taken," he continued. "But theuniversity would go on, and instruction would goon...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Yale's Grad Students Issue Strike Ultimatum | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...guys go to restaurants "where the people there are so snobby they're the type who pretend they don't know us, so we have a good time." To which Paul McCartney gives a twist: "Joe's Caf. Social comment, that, y'know." The gigs were half Bandstand, half Goon Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Becoming the Beatles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

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