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...Canada and you'll be told a few tongue-in-cheek stories. Even when they're drinking, the big men with the big-checked flannel shirts know pretty much where the truth stops and the fables begin. Nobody believes in The Blue Ox. Yet a lot of lumberjacks will swear by the existence of a giant humanoid standing close to ten feet tall and weighing up to 1000 pounds, called "Bigfoot" in California and the Pacific Northwest and "Sasquatch" in British Columbia...
...frustration and a certain embarrassment, they have to bust whoever is without influence, people they would probably just as soon leave alone-whores or some gays trying to have a good time in a bar. It is only when they swear vengeance on a porcine vice lord and pusher (Allen Garfield) that things really begin to come down on them...
...what are these men really teaching him? They teach him their own brand of stealing, yet now it's the illicit fun of male camaraderie--teaching him to drink, to swear, to rent women. The movie sees that these lessons are the lessons of the adolescent male, being fourteen and yelling "fuck" at the top of your lungs, glorying at the mysterious defiance of it. This is all the older men have to teach. For all their tatoos, the Navy has them in a state of arrested development. They've been to Vietnam but they've children, lost...
...context of Black Africa today, Gowon is a rarity. His personal honesty is unquestioned, and his prestige as an African spokesman is high among neighboring countries. Patient, soft-spoken and modest, he does not drink, smoke or swear, and lives quietly in a converted army barracks near Lagos with his wife and two children...
...once, it was apparent that Sunderland had a bit of the psychotic in his blood as he amazingly performed the Dr. Jekyll routine. I swear he foamed as he darted to the glass, mounted it and began raking the environs with his stick. The fans ducked, screamed, wept and fell, not necessarily in that order. After finishing this massacre, he skated to the dressing room as fast as he had struck...