Word: hoodlum
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...understand is the big stick. Thus to handcuff the police is to liberate the thug. Of course, there is no excuse for the extreme brutalization of a Haitian immigrant at Brooklyn's 70th Precinct, but a citizen like me has far more chance of being viciously attacked by a hoodlum than by a rogue cop. I would rather take the risk and let the police make tough decisions. I trust the cops more than the crooks. JOHN B. CARPENTER Vernon Hills...
...philosopher, dancing man, heroin addict--earned him an Academy Award nomination. And the picture earned the gratitude of that minority among us who think most contemporary movies, far from being too violent, are suffering a terminal case of the blahs. Now he's about to return as another unlikely hoodlum, at once incisive and dreamy, in Get Shorty, also a smart, shrewdly crafted movie, but one that's less dangerous, easier for everyone to like, than Pulp Fiction. There's every chance it will renew Travolta's Oscar eligibility...
...their lyrics, also knows it's not so simple. Record companies routinely tell artists to remix their albums or record new tracks. Something like that happened two years ago at A&M records. Its president, Al Cafaro, heard a track intended for an album by the rap artist Intelligent Hoodlum. Bullet in the Brain was about killing a police officer. In the wake of the uproar over Ice-T's song Cop Killer, record executives everywhere were thinking twice. "It was nothing that we could be party to,'' says Cafaro of the song. "I told him I couldn't release...
...unquestionable highlight of the production is Vikram Savkar, as Nicely-Nicely Johnson, a hoodlum with an insatiable appetite. Pulling everything from hot-dogs to strings of Mozzarella cheese from his coat pockets and stuffing them in his mouth in mid-sentence, Savkar imbues his character with an endearing and unbounded nervous energy...
...even on television, it is the real violence that is the most disturbing. A lynch-mob of police officers pummel Rodney King; a hoodlum smashes Reginald Denny's head with a brick. The ceaselessly repeated footage of these incidents is far worse than anything Hollywood could ever dream...