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That persona basically took John Wayne, the solitary western hero, and made him nastier, edgier, way easier to anger. Where the Duke drawled and lumbered--he wasn't so much a cattleman as a cattle man--Clint scowled and pounced, a scorpion with stubble. This character was both iconic and malleable: he was as at home on the streets as on the range and as a cop (in the Dirty Harry series), a convict (Escape from Alcatraz), a soldier (Heartbreak Ridge) and, later, a father figure like the Old Testament God--anyone with an intimidating presence and a sandpaper soul...
...Robo-calls can also make an already contentious election that much nastier. In 2000, Republicans John McCain and George W. Bush attacked one another for automated phone calls that used the words "vicious bigot" and "satanic cult;" both campaigns denied responsibility, blaming overzealous supporters, while McCain went so far as to refer to them as "hate calls...
...students are imitating adult politicians or because adults are acting out what they learned in high school.“Are we just mirroring the spirit of reaching out to voters?” Zisiadis asked of his high school campaign—or are students also mimicking the nastier parts of grown-up politics?As for his own strategy, Zisiadis said his campaign was all about visibility. He focused on personal interactions, setting up a “lounge” at his locker and handing out flyers at the top of the pedestrian bridge that students...
...firecrackers that crackled in the plaza of the central city of Morelia late Monday in celebration of Mexico's independence day served as a prelude to a nastier set of explosions. When the smoke cleared, more than 100 revelers lay bleeding on the paving stones. The clearly stunned state governor Leonel Godoy, who had moments earlier been presiding over the festivities, declared the attack the work of Mexico's increasingly violent drug gangs. By Tuesday, as annual parades marched somberly through the Mexican cities, at least eight victims of the blast had died from their wounds, and several more were...
...years after the fall of communist power, the Wild East was no place for faint hearts. Artyom Tarasov, one of Russia's first post-communist millionaires, recalled how quickly business disputes could turn into something much nastier when he described an incident from 1992 at the Club Volodya Cemago in Moscow. "A number of gangsters turned up that day with a clear mission: extract several million dollars from me or, failing that, kidnap me," he said. A veritable army then emerged from both sides - 30 to 40 men. "Given that all were armed to the teeth, it was only...