Word: ruffianism
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With his slight build, shock of gray hair, spectacles and bow ties, the 75-year-old who will deliver this year’s Commencement address looks more like a gentleman than a ruffian...
...fall of Details was more than a clash between tony Conde Nast culture and the ruffian lad-mag sensibility. It was a clash between rival ideas of manhood. Men's mags have slavered over women before--remember Vargas girls?--but with an affect of gentlemen's-club exclusivity. Young men turned to them as tutors in the mysteries of manhood. Today youths prefer populist outlets like Maxim and TV's The Man Show, which toast an uncomplicated guy-hood. Details, finally, didn't party hard enough...
...mysterious: painting was irrevocably changed by the drama and limpid sexuality of Caravaggio's pictures--boys with eyes of precocious longing, fruit heavy with a ripeness so perfect as to be forbidden even as it beckons. Robb's slangy style and streetwise eloquence perfectly convey the originality and ruffian swagger of his subject...
...scarred face and missing eye--wounds from a fight that must have happened years earlier. He carried a large photograph of the smiling Stephen in his M*A*S*H shirt, shouting racist epithets to incite the crowd. I silently compared the two men, Stephen and this massive ruffian--both black, both poor, both probably with a reason to hate whites. But Stephen's eyes sparkled above his childish grin. The man's eyes had narrowed, and his skin had deep furrows from a permanent frown on his deep set jaw. And I watched the beefy, red-faced white police...
...Epps is lumping everyone who goes to my church into the category of criminal or ruffian or harasser," he told The Crimson last winter...