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...trouble began last November when antigovernment demonstrators, protesting the one-man rule of Prime Minister Eric Gairy, 51, and an unemployment rate of 50% or more, began marching through the streets of St. George's, the island's capital. Gairy's police, a roughneck band derisively called "the Mongoose" by opponents, retaliated by beating up opposition leaders. Their attacks culminated last month in "Bloody Monday," when the Prime Minister's bullyboys broke up a protest rally and killed the father of one of Gairy's chief critics. Since then they have been looting shops owned...
...lives. Only twelve years ago, the odds that 14-year-old O.J. would get out of the principal's office on any given day without punishment were about as good as the odds last July that he would gain 1,800 yds. He and his roughneck buddies at Galileo High School in San Francisco were caught running a crap game in the boys' room. After the dice players had been delivered to the principal and their offense fully described, O.J. started out the door. "Where are you going?" demanded the principal...
...Scarlet Ruse and The Turquoise Lament are the 14th and 15th installments of MacDonald's serially published dream manual about the beachboy Hamlet, Travis McGee. This paladin is a roughneck who lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., despoiling stewardesses and brooding about the decline of the West. He quests forth, when funds are low, to do battle for the dread forces of reality-a Robin Hood among chattel rustlers who steals loot back from thugs and swindlers and returns it, minus a 50% commission, to the widows and orphans from whom it was taken. Oftener than...
...might ordinarily be classified as "sleepers," no pro scout worth his binoculars could possibly overlook this imposing pair Chambers is rated as "natural" who will "equalize" his lack of college competition within the first two weeks of training camp." Reports one scout: "What can you say about a huge roughneck who is fast enough to overhaul running backs downfield? He may be the first pick." Matuszak has been terrorizing opposing backs all season long. A punishing pass rusher, he is a "devastating force" who has "that special instinct for sensing where the play is going." Willie Harper, Nebraska...
...visits an old man named Stan. Pinsent admitted that the principal reason for writing the visit into the film was to show Cole in a compassionate light, and to redeem him for his earlier nastiness. Stan, played by Will Geer, is also meant to demonstrate the continuity of the roughneck tradition in Newfoundland--in his youth he was supposed to have been a real hell-raiser. But he only comes across as pathetic...