Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little pieces. Chicago's authorities had known about Yummy for years. He was born to a teenage addict mother and a father now in jail. As a baby he was burned and beaten. As a student he often missed more days of school than he attended. As a ripening thug he shuttled between homes and detention centers and the safe houses maintained by his gang. The police arrested him again and again and again; but the most they could do under Illinois law was put him on probation. Thirteen local juvenile homes wouldn't take him because...
...play Wyatt Earp heroically, as a mythopoeic legend of the Old West, riding out of some misty nowhsere to bring peace, justice and other good values to the American frontier. You can play him antiheroically (which is probably closer to the historical truth), as a wandering thug who, when he isn't dealing faro or looking for a gold strike, occasionally makes a living as a peace officer not entirely immune to corruption. What you shouldn't do -- especially at 3 hours and 15 minutes, a length that implicitly promises epic grandeur -- is turn his story into a solemn biopic...
PRISONS: Building the Better Thug...
...television," he moaned... Two funny mistakes were made by the Boston Garden scoreboard operator during Monday's game. First, they made sophomore Tom Holmes into a metric unit, calling him Ton Holmes. Second, when freshman Stuart Swenson was sent to the penalty box after being pummeled by a BC thug, the scoreboard read "Harvard penalty: #12 Steve Flomenhoft." Flomenhoft graduated last year...Valentine's Day at the Beanpot has not been too much fun for the Crimson: Harvard is 1-4 on February 14 at the Garden... Harvard has lost its last three tournament overtime games. In 1992 RPI took...
...first part of the book interweaves Genet's early years with excerpts from his highly autobiographical novels, creating a rich fabric of the facts and the fiction they gave rise to. The biography tracks Genet to Paris, where he became Cocteau's literary find, his "golden thug," and later, Sartre's "pet queer." White imbues even the most frequently told stories with a novel charm. His recreation of the De Beauvoir-Sartre headquarters at the Cafe Deux Magots is sardonic and affectionate, and the deliciously lengthy and opinionated portrait of Cocteau could stand on its own as a study...