Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while talking to a New York Post reporter, said that Troy was high at the time of the shooting. Goetz told Friedman on the phone, "Those guys, I'm almost sure, are vicious, savage people." An attorney in the D.A.'s office confirmed Goetz's suspicions: "This was a rough bunch of kids." (In a bizarre twist, Ramseur was arrested last week for faking his own kidnaping, apparently to see how the police would react...
Residents of Detroit have added to their city's reputation as a rough place. So far this year three burglars have been shot and killed by angry homeowners. Marie Morrison, 78, shot a 16-year-old youth who tried to force his way into her house. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young praised her action, declaring, "Every person has a right and an obligation to defend their own home." Daniel Kindred, 41, killed Ronnie Trapp, 19, when he saw Trapp climbing out of a basement window of the Kindred house. Last week Wayne County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Elliott Hall decided...
Rather than chase would-be criminals, these citizen crime watchers are expected to let trained officers handle the rough stuff. Nonetheless, when Jerry Hester, a Hughes Tool Co. executive, heard four shots ring out while on patrol in his East Houston neighborhood on March 3, he could not resist the impulse to take action, however dangerous. As he radioed his base station --Hester's handle was "Stringbean," the base was "Country Cousin"--a white Chevrolet Monza with three occupants sped past him. He followed at high speed. Country Cousin, actually Howard Petty, 61, security director for the Eastwood Civic Association...
...gritty songs about lost affection and spiritual redemption earned rough- and-ready Tina Turner two 1985 Grammys, securing her crown as the comeback queen of rock 'n' roll. Next Turner's fans will get a chance to see her strut her tuff in Mad Max III, the Road Warrior sequel to be released this summer. For the latest installment of the adventure series, set in postapocalypse Australia, Turner, 46, plays Aunty Entity, the hardhearted ruler of a barbaric outpost known as Bartertown. No, love's got nothing to do with it; instead of falling for Swoon Symbol Mel Gibson...
...century artists. Mythmaking has something to do with this. We have a proto-Marxist Caravaggio, the painter of common people with dirty feet and ragged sleeves. There is also a homosexual Caravaggio, moved into the spotlight during the '70s by gay liberation: the painter of overripe, peachy bits of rough trade, with yearning mouths and hair like black ice cream. Most of all, there is Caravaggio the avant-gardist...