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...soda pop. But ask again, on a dull, gray, Spenglerian day, and the view is altogether different. Alarming, appalling, totally awesome. The critic Dwight Macdonald called pop culture a spreading ooze back in the 1950s, when Sylvester Stallone was still just a boy. Today America's righteous pop thug is huge, ubiquitous, swaggering from one medium into the next and the next: he is a movie warrior, he is a TV cartoon character, he is a plastic doll, he is a music-video creature and now, in candy racks all over America, he is chewing gum--Rambo black flak, jagged...
Last week, I was assaulted on Winthrop Street in Harvard Square by Cambridge's toughest thug (by reputation): John Harvard himself. This incident left me minus my wallet and feeling vengeful. The story thus far: Friday night I parked at 67 Winthrop Street. Approaching the open spot I spied No Parking signs, but in the half-block between an alley and Kennedy Street, I inspected the posts carefully, and the coast looked clear. No signs, right or left, (This might have made me pause, I admit.) Fifteen minutes later my car was gone. The Cambridge police offered the (wrong) number...
...sound and horror of authenticity, The Godfather minus the glamour. There is no rich, family feeling here, no accretion of loyalties and vendettas. There is only the nostalgia of a successful sociopath for a lawless past. "Truckloads of swag. Fur coats, televisions, clothes--all for the asking," the thug recalls. "When I was broke I just went out and robbed some more. We ran everything. We paid the lawyers. We paid the cops. Everybody had their hands out. We walked out laughing. We had the best of everything...
...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...