Word: thug
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...snapped pictures of a race riot in Bab-el-Oued, an Algiers suburb. Last month, a French TV cameraman, James Bantos, was shot to death. Fortnight ago, Camille Pelletier of United Press International, emerging from a building in downtown Algiers, was set upon by a razor-wielding thug of the S.A.O., the Secret Army Organization, and viciously slashed about the face...
BREATHLESS. Director Jean-Luc Godard, a 30-year-old Frenchman, produced a striking piece of cubistic cinema -technically and experimentally the most original film of the year-that describes the last three days of sex and violence in the life of a young thug (portrayed in feral fashion by Jean-Paul Belmondo...
BRATTLE: Another episode from the New Wave's chronicle of that peculiarly post-war phenomenon, the Aimless Man, "Breathless" stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg as, respectively, a hip thug and his hapless American moll. The New Yorker found it "brilliant"; the Crimson, merely "worth seeing." Evenings...
...meets a sawed-off apprentice thug who wants her to buy a brick or he will conk her with it. She has no money, but takes the brick and, in innocence, offers it for the thug to a hysterical old man. A cop comes, the thug runs, she is led off to the station. There she panics, locks herself into what turns out to be the station arsenal. But the chief of police is coming for an inspection, and the door must be opened. A convict safecracker is summoned, dressed in a cop's uniform. The chief praises...
...where a pretty girl is whipped nightly onstage, the Carrousel, with its all boy chorus line, and the Drap d Or, which had the novel distinction this year of being closed by the Parisian police for operating "an obscene revue." New Capers. The dead king was no lowbrow thug. Born in Syria...