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...country. South Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Nasser Mohammed Hasani is described by one knowing U.S. observer as a "self-serving opportunist." Defense Minister Ali Antar, the third man in the country's new troika, is-in the words of this diplomat -no better than "a dumb thug...
...agribiz octopus that chased him away from home, and talking more like this than like thay-uht. He's not a hero, but he's a gifted survivor and a natural-born fink. In return for forgetting what he knows of an assassination attempt by a company thug on the union leader, Leroy is promoted to foreman, and he loses touch with his worker friends in La Causa as quickly as he lost his accent...
Best gadget of all is human one -seven-foot thug with preternatural strength and steel teeth, which he uses to snap victims' spinal cords. Name: Jaws. Orthodontist's nightmare. Running gag is that each time he is dispatched-trapped in building cave-in, flung from speeding train, tossed into shark tank, even torpedoed-Jaws (Richard Kiel) implacably reappears. In his silly, mechanical, likable way, a perfect symbol for Bond films. They're attacked, dismissed, put out of mind, but keep coming back and back and back...
Handicapper--The track thug responsible for disciplining jockeys who ride...
Here Widerberg begins to make his point. What is a policeman, after all? To some, he is an esteemed protector of law and order. To others, he is a licensed thug, doing society's dirty work to maintain the status quo. Of course, the truth lies somewhere between those two extremes, as Widerberg tries to show. One cannot assume that a cop is good solely because he is a cop. But this does not necessarily imply the opposite--the killer is not justified just because his target is evil hiding behind a facade of goodness. Some men are good, some...