Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that had been under fire. A high school dropout and former street brawler, Olander taught himself to read from repair manuals and science fiction at a U.S. Air Force station on Canada's Baffin Island. Suddenly enchanted with education, he says, "I simply left the world of being a hoodlum" and worked his way through a number of degrees to a vice presidency at the University of Texas, El Paso; there he earned a dual reputation as an innovative manager and cheerful nut who liked to dress up as Darth Vader. At Evergreen, in addition to making appearances...
...London, takes these words to heart as he aspires to the comfortable status of his assimilated (and sleazy) uncle and pursues his own commercial dream of "a laundrette the size of the Ritz." With the assistance of his gay lover, Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis), an ersatz National Front hoodlum, Omar dreams up "Powders," a designer cleaning service replete with neon signs and high-style furnishings--even a fish tank...
When melodrama did surface at the festival, it could seem as out of place as a punk in an Amish Sunday school. John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea sets a couple of urban pit dogs-a Bronx hoodlum (John Turturro) and a vagrant young mother (June Stein)-at each other's throats with coarsely romantic results, but the conclusion is too optimistic to be quite convincing. The Undoing, by William Mastrosimone, offers promise of a fascinating character: a woman (Debra Monk), now running her late husband's poultry business, whose rage...
...first in the presence of a stranger, are almost uniformly generous with their time. We have come to think of our country as a dangerous place. Ironically, Least Heat Moon writes toward the end of his travels, "I'd traveled 10,000 miles and not encountered a single hoodlum. But I'd been taken for one several times." The observation at once seems to reflect Americans' fear of one another and their underlying good nature...
...program. This show bears a more than coincidental resemblance to Sid Caesar's old Your Show of Shows. The perils it presents to a man whose joints have been vulcanized by excesses of meaningful booze and meaningless sex are substantial: an erratically egomaniacal star (Joseph Bologna); an aggrieved hoodlum (Cameron Mitchell), convinced he is being satirized in one of the regular sketches and determined to have violent revenge; a writing staff headed by a man (Bill Macy) who knows only three emotions-panic, depression and obsequiousness; the general hysteria surrounding the weekly production of a program that is broadcast...