Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...born in Haifa in 1947, a year before that city became part of the newly created state of Israel. He was taken to Syria a decade later and grew up in the Yarmuk refugee camp near Damascus. Though one U.S. official last week characterized Abbas as "an uneducated thug," he studied English and Arabic literature at the University of Damascus...
...humor for Jack Nicholson in PRIZZI'S HONOR (Sack Copley Place). At first glance he plays the amiable Mafia hit man as simply as he slips into his Brooklyn accent, but his animated face and agile acting reveal a character far more likeable and intriguing than some cotton-mouthed thug...
...played down the crimes of Sex Offender Caryl Chessman and dwelt on his slow, gruesome execution in the gas chamber for the explicit purpose of arousing public sentiment against capital punishment. NBC's Kennedy depicted the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a scheming bureaucratic thug, and the same network's King, also by Abby Mann, suggested that the black civil rights leader was virtually a puppet of white liberals. At minimum, docudramas inevitably distort history by being selective. Ike, which focused on a purported World War II romance between President Dwight Eisenhower and his aide Kay Summersby, exaggerated...
Joan Rivers sent a LOVE AND KISSES telegram offering to help out with the bail money. "Thug Buster" T shirts began to appear on the streets of New York City, and an aspiring rock group wrote a song in his honor ("I'm not going to give you my pay/ Try and take it away/ Come on, make my day/ They call him the vigilante"). The red-bereted Guardian Angels jingled canisters in front of subway straphangers, collecting for his defense. But Bernhard Hugo Goetz, the 37-year-old electronics expert who shot four black teen-agers...
...their rent money to make repairs. One of the first steps was to install security fences and better lighting. Such measures irritated the thieves and drug peddlers who ruled the streets. They tore down the fences. Lindsey and some neighbors put the fences up again, then stood guard. One thug attacked Lindsey with a knife, slashed through his windbreaker and cut his stomach. Lindsey whipped out a .38 and shoved it under the knifer's nose. "I told him to get on his knees and beg," says Lindsey. "I could have killed that...