Word: thugs
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Mafiosi, of course, do not punctuate their conversation with "Allah is great!" and "Praise Allah!" The bin Laden home movie mixes ejaculations of piety with postgame Islamic towel snapping and a chillingly cynical amusement at the sucker martyrs. Combine the piety and the thug's mirth, and you get something of that lounging insolence with which Satan, at the opening of the Book of Job, answers God's "Whence comest thou?" with: "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." A sneering theological swagger. Evil usually feels comfortable with itself...
...actors' movement. The action in Metamorphoses is structured around a large wading pool, and the stage devices are so elegantly simple, they provoke a smile even as they heighten the drama. When God creates light, an actor lights a cigarette; for a fatal storm at sea, a bare-chested thug tosses a bucket of water at the captain and wrestles him into submission in the water. Some stories are enacted, others narrated; still others are a deft mix of the two. A few good-natured modernisms are sprinkled in, but they never interfere with the seriousness and earnest romanticism...
...guys exemplified purist hip-hop’s worst qualities—a formulaic, unexciting musical aesthetic of mediocre loops and scratches, paired with uncharismatic M.C.s who, with their “clever” yet predictable punchline lyrics, ended up saying as little as any “thug kna’a mean?” gangsta rapper. Occasionally taking breaks from their set for some rather awkward sketches, lame jokes and clichéd sermons on the real meaning of hip-hop, the trio demonstrated that hip-hop isn’t about “looking...
Congratulations are in order for the police officer who successfully defended himself in Genoa. It seems to me that a violent, hooded thug got exactly what he deserved: a trip home in a box. JEFF WRIGHT Chicago...
...police, India's most wanted bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is a cold-blooded thug. The career criminal is accused of committing at least 120 murders, slaughtering some 2,000 elephants for their tusks, and leading a violent gang that has smuggled rare sandalwood from forest reserves for 30 years. But to the desperately poor living in the fringes of southern India's forests, Veerappan is a near folk hero. In a region with few jobs, he employs them to fell and transport sandalwood trees, pays for people's weddings and, by avoiding capture for decades, has successfully thumbed his nose...