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...Easy Rider were made again now from the shreds of what remains, maybe Hopper's thug-hostility and the Fonda's empty anti-social posing would be left out. Maybe they wouldn't be cocaine dealers with no idea of what they were looking for. Now maybe going out on the road would be a kind of dream, with friends along the way and a home waiting at the end of the line. Maybe "Born To Be Wild" would be a less defiant but equally idealistic "Blue Skies;" maybe "If Six Were Nine" would be "Ramblin' Man"; and maybe "Long...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Richard Betts: American Musician | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

...Sampson is a thug and killer, pure and simple." British authorities believe that he was responsible for 26 killings in his fight against British rule, but he was never convicted of murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Big Troubles over a Small Island | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...sput ters four-letter words until some pages read like excerpts from a washroom wall. Talk is his forte, and the talk in this book is uninspired. But the action is sharp, and Higgins provides some hilarious glimpses of the home life of the North American gorilla - one thug is on cortisone for colitis, another takes a contract because his wife needs some root-canal work. Cogan himself is a memorable meanie, easily the reptile of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reptile of the Month | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...middle of Times Square, a patrolman keeps his eyes on four screens for the first flicker of something going wrong. He can phone a squad car that will appear on the scene in as little as 30 seconds, or he can rush out himself to nab a thug, as Patrolman Jim Ray did in the case of Mrs. Kearns. Says Lieut. Berg: "It is as if we provide a cop at every door where the camera goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Big Eye on the Great White Way | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

They were like people doing what they could to stop a thug from beating up an old lady, risking injury to the thug or some innocent passerby in the fracas. Or like a policeman pursuing a homicidal maniac at 100 miles per hour, knowing the chase could end in an accident dangerous to unknowing uninvolved pedestrians. Or like a mechanic inserting a wrench into the gears of an airplane loaded with bombs, aware that he and the bombadier and the pilot might die so that the innocent children the bombs would have killed could live...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Karleton Armstrong | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

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