Word: thuggish
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...video follows the unassuming crew as they act out, in all of their goofy, non-thuggish glory, the song’s lines, mixing absurdly literal interpretations with entirely illogical juxtapositions...
...Bill Clinton that public opinion would inevitably revolt against any nation-building effort—or any war at all—at the first sign of casualties. This concern echoed throughout his presidency. It led to his ordering the USS Harlan County’s retreat from a thuggish mob in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; it paralyzed him into inaction on the Rwandan genocide; it muddled his response to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia; it influenced his appeasement of the murderous Foday Sankoh in Sierra Leone; and it dissuaded him from pursuing a “boots on the ground?...
...best track, Patiently Waiting, in which 50 talks about how long he's been itching to show off his talent. 50 has some talent to show, and when he's rapping about his desire to be somebody he can even be poignant. But he's also capable of disturbingly thuggish behavior. The track Wanksta is the latest salvo in an increasingly absurd feud 50 is conducting with rapper Ja Rule. Two years ago, Ja Rule was robbed of several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry; later he saw 50 hanging out with the robber. 50 insists he had no connection with...
...progressive forces can embrace the market without compromising their social priorities?or losing their political souls. The inability to resolve that conundrum has bled France's once-mighty Communist Party to near extinction. Disgruntled working-class voters have increasingly sought ideological solace in Trotskyist movements?or defected to the thuggish populism of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. Other members of the leftist coalition have experienced a similar flight. The Green Party, for instance, found that the pragmatism required to be in government alienated many of its members, who had expected uncompromising policies. As elections neared, both the Communists...
...culture Jose had embraced here in Florida in the early '90s, especially the extremist brand of Islam he later adopted. As a result, to explain this tragic turn his life took, I relied on Islamic community leaders in Broward County and colleagues like Hasnain to help me understand the thuggish subculture that is perverting Islam--which turned out to be just another, albeit deadlier, street gang for Jose to join...