Word: thug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leyden's journey from normal kid to thug and back again, began when he was a teenager in the blue-collar town of Fontana, California. His parents divorced when he was 15, and he became angry, lonely and, most important to skinhead recruiters, vulnerable. "I needed to lash out," he explains. "They look for young, angry kids who need a family." He dropped out of school and began meeting skinheads hanging around the punk-rock scene. The trappings--bomber jacket, shaved head and steel-toed Dr. Martens boots--and hard-line beliefs soon followed. "These were good guys, I thought...
...brilliant criminal who never returned the Gambinos to the profitable glory days of life under Don Carlo and Big Paul. Leave reality out of it though, and Gotti, with grand performances by Assante, Forsythe, and Anthony Quinn as the don's mentor Aniello Dellacroce, is fine portrait-of-a-thug drama...
Solondz' film is not just a nostalgic tribute to suburbs or even geekiness. At times he brings a malevolent darkness to "Dollhouse" which complements well the more mundane perversions of junior high life. Brandon McCarthy (Bredan Sexton Jr), a thug in Dawn's class, shows his affection for the hapless Dawn by making a variety of dates with her on which, he informs her ahead of time, he will rape her. It's a dangerous move on Solondz's part, but within the context of the film the threat of rape becomes so unreal, so divorced from the reality...
...enraged the tobacco industry, the vitamin industry and the medical-device industry. A self-described Republican, he has alienated most of Congress's Republican majority, including Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, his former boss and mentor. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has called him a "bully" and a "thug" and accused him of using "Stalinist" tactics...
...THUG OF THE YEAR: Sani Abacha, leader and executioner of shell-shocked Nigerians. Runner-up: Ratko Mladic, the Serb who makes Milosevic look like a moderate...