| 单词 | thug |
| 例句 | Fannie knew the sheriff’s deputies doubled as Lewis Hicks’s armed thugs. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “Leave a girl alone like that when there’s all kindsa phantoms and thugs around.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Apparently there was too much else for them to do, as wealthy visitors and foreign dignitaries began arriving in ever-greater numbers, shadowed by a swarm of pickpockets, thugs, and petty swindlers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You’re trying to stay cool by running under sprinklers. Just like when you were a cute little boy instead of a skinny thug.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “We need goons. And even if we got thug muscle, as soon as they knew about the ship, they’d take it for themselves, too.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z In this case, criminals and thugs essentially act as mercenaries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was a crowd of thugs, black-shirted for the rally even though they could get arrested for it, hair slicked back with Brylcreem like a bunch of airmen. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He held up his Transvice, but the thugs didn’t understand the threat, or didn’t care. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The Swarm was an interstellar gang of crooks and thugs who harassed folks for no good reason. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z There was a big task pressing in on us, a big responsibility: to shoulder some power, to uproot the dictator’s thugs, to be effective and thorough with-out becoming vengeful. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept trying to pay attention to everybody around me, just in case some thug tried to start something. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I kind of laughed at the way she said the word “thugs.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “With more water you can grow fruit like crazy from your fruit trees,” the thugs’ mellifluous voices crooned. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Nazi thugs beat Fuchs nearly to death and tossed him in a river. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “He ain’t Dr. King! Then you hire thugs to work up in here. I heard that Khalil boy got himself killed last night. He was probably selling that stuff.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Herein lay another complaint the people had with the educated and tricky thugs who were trying to form a conservancy district in order to build the Zopilote’s private swimming lake behind the Indian Creek Dam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had absolutely no intention of sharing his winnings with a thug from W.P.O. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “No nephew of mine is auditioning for E.T.: The Musical looking like a thug.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z LeAlan: That’s true—I can sit out here and be a thug and die or I could be a lawyer and die. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the police had easily caught up with the big thug, though he shook off two officers before eventually being tackled and handcuffed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the coach saw a few eighth graders pounding the younger kids like usuaL Maybe the other kids saw Matt Sloans thugs getting ready, to toss Molotov cocktails around. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Cupid seemed more like a thug, an enforcer. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “You think I’m a thug, well I claim it,” I mutter. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Does the school know what that thug did to our son?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She refused to leave, talking about how it was her home and no thugs were gonna run her out, not even when somebody broke in and stole her television. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Actually, he didn’t just die. Some thug shot him at a nightclub up in the Bronx. They haven’t found him yet—the dude that shot my brother—but I know he’s still out there.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z For some people, the thugshot makes him look just like that—a thug. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes he sounds like a thug in training. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was just a thug who deserved to die. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Personal combat has no meaning. It is an unfair justice anyway. It is the thugs who win.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hear that? I think the boy’s right. Maybe we really ought to shoot these thugs.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Middlefield thinks I’m a thug even when I’m wearing my school uniform. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I wanted to run on ahead, leaving Lula and Travis to their inane conversation, but I feared he would be fallen upon by thugs along the road. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He was practical, in a basic sort of way, an efficient shoplifter, and occasional thug who did not care about being liked as long as the other kids, all smaller, did what he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Risking someone might think I’m a thug and want a real shoot-out. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z He just hoped that when it opened there wasn’t an army of green-suited thugs waiting on the other side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I started to act like a thug even if I wasn’t one....Part of it was me trying to be hard, the other part was them treating me like a criminal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Men in dark glasses who look like the thugs who raided the compound months ago lurk at the shadowy edges of the patio. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I tell Russ about how my grandfather stole money from the thugs he worked for so he could take my grandmother back to Ireland. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it was owned and operated by a gang of thugs and bullies from the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I can hold my own in a fistfight, but I'm not about to get shot to save some corner store fifty bucks in loot, or whatever this thug pilfered. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In one thematic string we have terms like criminals, criminal warfare, crime, fun, profit, gangs, mafias, thugs, mercenaries, troublemakers, preys on the weak, executioners, violence, desertion, flight, whim, opportunity, and run. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I wasn’t even sure what a thug was exactly, which was all the more reason to be scared. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The girl was like a sister to him, but, if he needed help beating up a gang of thugs or subduing a victory goddess, Piper was not the first person he’d turn to. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I get it. I guess I am a thug, I don’t know. I did what I had to do. King Lords was the closest thing me and Dalvin had to a family.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z For half an hour, the cops and government thugs tried everything to shackle my father’s hands, and each time, they failed. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z One thug whacked Shorty across the shoulders with a baseball bat, and, as the foreman tried to spin around, another man kicked him in the balls and he sat down, half-blacking out, half-vomiting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh my gosh, of course not, Auggie. He just wanted to know that you were all right. That’s all that matters to us. And that you don’t let those . . . thugs . . . ruin your trip.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z When we saw the bus about three blocks away we all got in a line—old thugs, young thugs, regular kids, then me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The monster’s huge muscled form loomed over the rest of the thugs, its doglike muzzle snarling and showing its teeth to scare back the hungry people. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The thug ghetto girl with the drug dealer? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I am not a thug, gangster, hoodlum, nor monster. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z If you dress like a thug, she would insist as she opened the trash barrel, of course you act like a thug. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Before the election, Banda’s thugs had even attempted to scare people into voting for him again. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They were thugs and riffraff, deputized at the whim of industrial corporations in the valley. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “Sometimes you can believe the rumors and chitchat,” the older man says as they slosh through the water of the passageway outside the storage closet where they encountered the armed thugs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “No, I didn’t just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z So what if people end up thinking he was a thug and never care? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z "The man was defending himself from thugs," said Tison's neighbor April Henry. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But there was a swell of noisy outrage from other people in the crowded street, and the little gang of thugs laughed again and moved on. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I only remember where it said the people who had been working for Duvalier, the thieves and thugs and secret police, all those Macoutes, could not be in the government anymore. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I think the fact that her mom has to constantly defend all those thugs is starting to screw with her head. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The thugs Pop worked for took me to get to my grandfather—to get him to come back from Ireland. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just don’t want to be Helen Burns. You can sit down on the bed, you know. It’s not going to break. At least, not because of a skinny thug like you.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He cracks his knuckles like he’s some tough thug instead of my dorky older brother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It had been nothing, the yellow-green remnants of a crack he’d taken to the face during a training exercise, but apparently Hoede had caught sight of it and didn’t like his guards looking like thugs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was clear the thug life was wearing him down—the violence, the danger, the vigilance. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Of course, those had loads of comments like, Does this look like a thug? and If he were white with this uniform on, would you still question him? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Two weeks ago, a gang of thugs tried to pull off our Somalian friend's head scarf. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She let her finger run along the lines, over the rough, sandy paper, while her eyes followed the letters to another, colder place, in another time, to a house without locked doors and black-jacketed thugs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Yet there he was this morning, on the school bus, insulting the same pea-brained thug who already held a mortal grudge against him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sleepy, but at the plant I tried to stay awake so that I could watch out for the thug. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I hope that my first tennis shoes, stolen by thugs, somehow got this far. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s filled with words like “thug” and “tyrant,” and it goes on for pages, a torrent of frustration and abuse. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Beatrice couldn’t make out whether they belonged to an army or were simply common thugs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z These two thugs have been quizzing her for half an hour. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes criminals—robbers, brigands, freebooters, highwaymen, hooligans, thugs, bandits, pirates, gangsters, outlaws—organize or join together in gangs or bands or mafias. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z You’d find the freelance thugs pushing off for rebounds, and the A students, quietly showing off silky jump shots and then running back downcourt eyes down, trying not to look too pleased with themselves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Oswald Wyre and Ant Little do this jackal laughter like their master's all six Monty Pythons rolled into one comedy thug. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Within a few years, rumrunning was dominated by the killers and thugs of organized crime. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As soon as we see the thugs preying on little old ladies and fleeing when the cops show up, we appreciate how an army composed of such men would operate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “This isn’t a job for trained soldiers and spies. It’s a job for thugs and thieves. Van Eck knows it, and that’s why he brought us in.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He does not seem to have known what he was in for, possibly because he viewed the Inka as a gang of rustic thugs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Just like that thug Bruce had said during his speech in the auditorium. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But now his thoughts were muddied with these thugs and thieves, with Inej’s courage and Jesper’s daring, and with Nina, always Nina. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I’d been ready for a muscular thug and negotiations filled with thinly veiled threats and bravado. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Maybe there were magic powers hiding in the way your older brother made all the worst thugs in the neighborhood play basketball with you even though you double-dribbled every time they threw you the ball. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t have my best man getting clipped by some island thug.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s just another boss, one more Barrel thug.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You’re still pretty enough to fetch a good price. Getting hard around the eyes though—too much time spent with that little thug Brekker.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry that you think it’s in your best interest to spend time with that thug,” Stephanie snapped at her. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “Everybody here bullies me. Teachers. Students. Whispers, sometimes outright shouts follow me. Seems like everybody has something bad to say: ‘You dress thug.’ Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Less than a minute had passed since they’d vaporized their friend and the violent thugs attacking her, but the crowd milling about in the yard and street seemed to have doubled in size. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Partly because of these two thugs trailing me now, but more because I knew Jermaine wouldn’t be here to protect my neck this time. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Someone had even cleaned and wrapped the mild abrasions on my hands and the knife wound from three days ago when Ambrose’s thugs had tried to kill me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His presence reverberated through the cramped rooms and crooked hallways as every thug, thief, dealer, con man, and steerer came a little more awake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “A thug. Why he assumed that though? What? By looking at Khalil? Explain that, Detective.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Two: I am listening. I listened enough to hear my child rapping like a thug!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Franklin thought he was saving a fellow white man from the clutches of an 8-5 thug. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I rolled up the window so the thug couldn’t get in and harm him. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z In front of us, these thugs, who could not have been more than eighteen years old, taunted my father, shouting at him to tell them where he had hid the key. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I thought about those thugs at the old barbershop and how they had changed Jermaine. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “You are not to talk to that girl again. And . you are not to call that man a thug. He is an employee of Mr. Lyndon. Do you understand me?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Oh yes, the other thugs and killers. How did you become a drüskelle, anyway?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Feel free to let yourself out. Think fond thoughts of Devi in two months’ time, when some thug is kicking the teeth out of your pretty little head.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They seemed the embodiment of the kind of young thug feared by nearly all urban-dwellers, and the mysterious gunman who shot them down seemed like an avenging angel. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It happens, however, that criminals and thugs tend to be undesirable warriors To begin with, they are often difficult to control. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Nailer scanned the arrayed thugs, recognizing some of the killers that his father ran with. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It began suddenly, in the Rose Garden, with a statement about “law and order” and “dangerous thugs.” ‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Heavily armed thugs set fire to one floor. Review: In ‘Skyscraper,’ Dwayne Johnson Scales a Tower of Clichés 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “Amish Mafia”: Is there really such a thing as an Amish thug? “Amish Mafia”: Is there really such a thing as an Amish thug? 2012-12-12T19:08:00Z Tomorrow we’ll have an invigorating talk about the menorah, about Judas Macabee casting the Syrian thugs out of the Holy Land. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z Through it all, Neil was not a thug, not a troubled child, not somebody the white people needed to save. As Neil Winters, Kristoff St. John Was a Cornerstone in a Corner Office 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Kelly has also gotten into trouble for portraying Black Lives Matter protesters as “thugs” and victim-blaming individuals who were targeted by racial violence. Megyn Kelly schooled by Ava DuVernay over Colin Kaepernick's Iran tweet 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z America’s racial double standard: White celebs are excused, but black stars are “thugs” America’s racial double standard: White celebs are excused, but black stars are “thugs” 2014-01-24T16:16:00Z Violence was key, though it was presented as a defensive reaction to “intellectual instigators” and dangerous provocateurs, which allowed the Nazis to paint themselves not as cruel thugs but as servants of “justice.” A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Hello to Marc Rissmann, best known for playing thugs in shows from The Last Kingdom to The Man in the High Castle and now turning up as Captain Harry Strickland, leader of the Golden Company. Game of Thrones recap: season eight, episode one – the end is now 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z For Knight, however, the violent thug life that Death Row once soundtracked has continued to be close at hand, even as his musical impact has lessened. Suge Knight remains stuck in a gangsta rap past 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z By the episode's conclusion, Haqqani and his thugs are poised to do just that as they rapidly make their way through a tunnel leading into the compound. 'Homeland' recap: Prisoner exchange part of far bigger plot 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Prosecutors claim the Teamsters engaged in thug tactics to secure wages for unnecessary service as drivers during the filming of "Top Chef," which had hired non-union workers for those positions. 'Top Chef' host Lakshmi testifies in Teamsters extortion trial 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Let’s stop looking the other way when thugs with lots of money and fragile egos do bad things. What the Roger Ailes saga can teach us about tyrants, power and protection 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Cosecure boss, Mr Dejean, ends up in hospital after what looks like a beating from hired thugs to persuade him to keep his mouth shut about the bribes. Spiral III: The Butcher of La Villette - episodes one and two 2011-04-02T21:50:00Z Worried that people see the color of his skin and automatically think he’s a thug. Their exchange went viral as a window into generations of black protest 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Once Kilgrave escapes with the help of a gang of hired, Taser-wielding thugs, Simpson tries to bully his way to Kilgrave’s whereabouts by threatening to mess up a captured baddie’s kneecap. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 5: I’ve Seen Heroes 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z She’s seen with a notorious local thug whom she knew in high school. David Bell’s ‘The Forgotten Girl’ is a mystery about a missing mom In “Bad Teacher,” a breezily crude comedy about unladylike pleasures like guzzling booze, swearing at children and being mean because, well, you can be, Cameron Diaz taps into her inner thug. | 'Bad Teacher': When the Teacher Gets High Marks in the Raunchy and the Profane 2011-06-23T22:21:08Z And he's resourceful, using whatever is to hand: during the office fight with an opponent twice his size, Bond picks up a settee and beats the huge thug with it. My favourite Bond film: You Only Live Twice 2012-10-04T15:29:14Z One journalist punched in face, another stabbed in leg by pro-Mubarak thugs in Cairo this morning. Journalists detail on Twitter media attacks in Egypt 2011-02-04T03:26:43Z It is a surgeon, not a thug, who growls “this isn’t over” at Grace at the end of a confrontation. Television Review: ‘The Mob Doctor,’ a Drama on Fox 2012-09-16T21:37:58Z When he attempted a comeback with a northern tour, his vulnerability excited all the thugs. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z “Not much call for cowboys these days,” the thug says in a syrupy, menacing drawl. Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z He tattooed the phrase “thug life” across his abdomen. Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur, dies at 69 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Prosecutors claim the Teamsters engaged in thug tactics to secure wages for unnecessary service as drivers during the filming of "Top Chef," which had hired non-union workers for those positions. 'Top Chef' host Lakshmi testifies in Teamsters extortion trial 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The company hired thugs to intimidate the porters, but Randolph and his top lieutenants persisted. 5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z It's the edgy allure of the sensitive street thug venting their breadline anguish on iPads procured by bike ambush. King Krule – review 2013-04-01T16:51:32Z And he didn’t match the assailant’s description: a “tall, dark thug.” Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Darlene doesn’t blame white thugs for their violence because that’s simply what white thugs do, the same way lions hunt gazelles. Novel will make you think twice about those beautiful fruits at the store 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z When a video of the attack went viral without context, it led to calls for an investigation into whether the “thug” El-Amin had committed a hate crime against the white gay men. Moonlight portrays black gay life in its joy, sadness and complexity 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The wall was decorated with a shooting-range target depicting a thug holding a gun to a woman’s head. Frankie Sharp, Party Promoter at Westgay at the Westway 2012-10-03T20:57:02Z Respect should be what his officers deserve: for having guns pointed at their heads by teenage thugs, then turning up to work the following morning at 7am sharp. TV review: The Bill, The Deep and Natureshock: Killer Squid Invasion 2010-09-01T06:00:00Z As in: Why, when Eric gets the thugs’ truck running and soon catches up with them, don’t they just shoot him and take their vehicle back? REVIEW: The Rover Goes Weirdly Western Down Under 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The kids are a generic assortment of moppet thugs, often letting their dance battles spill over into tweenage violence. 'Battlefield America': OK dance-offs, bad movie 2012-06-01T18:44:04Z A fight in a train’s cattle car, between Leo and the thugs sent to kill him, is vigorously staged. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z It's a tale of tragedy that begins when a college professor named Tony encounters a group of thugs on a dark road. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z They sure can, said “Breaking Bad,” and demonstrated the point by transforming a benign chemistry teacher into a homicidal thug. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: A Chimp With a Machine Gun 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z According to the lawsuit, the teacher, Steven Carmine, said that Michael Brown was “a thug and got what he deserved.” “Lincoln was a n***er-lover”: Middle school teacher accused of horrific classroom tirades 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z She also gained notoriety for insisting that Santa Claus was white and referring to a “thug mentality” within black communities that led to a hatred of police. Megyn Kelly's NBC show cancelled after blackface controversy 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z At one point, thugs with knives and axes show up. Luther 2010-05-18T05:45:00Z The eight ensemble members here are delightfully resourceful as they become an entire population of corrupt thugs and government officials, with little more than a change of headgear. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Aged 14, he watched his younger brother, Jed, who had already tried to kill himself, being viciously assaulted because he'd got off with the sister of a local thug. Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III ? review 2011-07-29T10:43:00Z The clip showed Reynolds as Hal Jordan, who, after a fight with street thugs, takes the Green Lantern oath and uses his new powers to blow them away. Fans see 'Green Lantern' footage at 'Comic-Con' 2010-07-24T22:41:00Z I was dating somebody who was like a thug gangster, and this was a person who you would think all he listened to is rap. Sherri Shepherd Skates Through Life 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z In 2021's breakneck diversion "Nobody" he's Hutch, a retired special forces agent who resurfaces to tear through an army of thugs who threaten to hurt his family. Bob Odenkirk scores with "Lucky Hank," a frustrated guy who shares DNA with his "Saul" conman 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z At the age of 54, Noé still has the self-conscious air of a disreputable young thug. Gaspar Noé: 'Six people walked out of Climax? No! I usually have 25%' 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z In perhaps the most awkward bit of historical exposition ever squeezed into a “Downton” script, Edith declares, “There’s a trial going on in Munich of the leader of a group of thugs there.” 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Thomas and the Heterosexual Household 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z A government spokesperson repeatedly appears on television, offering a familiarly audacious, top-level interpretation of the chaos: "In these times of disorder, we need to name people for what they are — thugs." Omar Musa brings Australian hip-hop, poetry and subculture to the US in 'Here Come the Dogs' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Starr struggles with what to say, and to whom, and begins, with the help of her activist lawyer, to push back against the media’s portrayal of Khalil as a thug and drug dealer. Three books to inspire young readers to bravery 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z She meets one of Somalia's most notorious U.S.-backed warlords, a man "with thick well-oiled curls and double-wide girth" whose thugs fleece his own population into abject poverty. Eliza Griswold's 'The Tenth Parallel': where Christianity and Islam meet 2010-09-29T21:40:00Z The Saintly and the Loutish Share a Violent London Can a saintly nun save the soul of a macho thug? Movie Review: In ‘Redemption,’ Jason Statham Teams With a Nun 2013-06-28T00:22:12Z Neeson, 61, plays an ex-CIA operative in the series, which sees him taking bloody revenge a variety of thugs keen to mess with his family. Taken 3 to bag Liam Neeson $20m fee 2013-06-25T10:44:21Z Sometimes the family just needs to brawl as pudgy, hilarious, endearing, gelatinous thugs. Video Games to Play With Your Kids That Won’t Drive You Crazy 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Somewhat improbably, Jack stumbles on evidence proving that a thug with an Eastern European accent killed his uncle. ‘Killer, Come Hither,’ a legal thriller set amid New York’s upper crust 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s true — the outer dystopia is the thugs and living in your car; the inner dystopia is the Consilience/Positron project, so there are layers of utopianism and dystopianism, sort of like an Easter egg. Margaret Atwood on our real-life dystopia: “What really worries me is creeping dictatorship” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Txato, a well-to-do shipping company owner, becomes the object of a shakedown by ETA thugs who send him menacing letters demanding payments to fund their operations. Review | ‘Homeland’ captures the personal costs of Spain’s violent political conflict 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Down in Los Angeles, robocops patrol the violent streets; the city has become an ugly crime lab for Hispanic thugs and a few lowlife Anglos. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z The documentary "Rubble Kings" revisits the lawless gangland that was the Bronx in the 1960s and '70s through former street thugs who lived it. 'Rubble Kings' details the gritty Bronx of the 1960s and '70s 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Stanley Kubrick had put aside his adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel because he couldn’t find the right actor to play Alex, the violent thug. How we made A Clockwork Orange – by Malcolm McDowell 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z And because few things are more volatile than an emasculated thug, we guess it won’t be long before mattresses and ammunition are at the top of everyone’s shopping list. ‘Outlaws’ Review: Uneasy Riders. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z This is a guy who, when threatened on his home turf by a thug twice his size, unconcernedly steps to his bathroom, drops his trousers and takes a seat. Aw, geez, 'Fargo' is on TV with Billy Bob Thornton 2014-04-14T19:11:40Z He does impressions of Gary Oldman's cockney thug in the film just screened, and quotes favoured Philip Roth passages that acclaim New York, his indefinite home town. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z Paid thugs do their bit, torching newspaper offices, abducting a journalist a year ago whose fate is still unknown, and killing an MP who was seen as a religious moderate. A darker shade of blue 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z But we’ve always sensed she really wants an out, to escape the Kentucky thug life. 'Justified' Recap: Ava Sticks to Boyd, and Her Own Dark Side 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Among his extraordinary abilities is his power to break glass with his high-pitched voice, an allusion to Kristallnacht — the “night of broken glass” in 1938 — when Nazi thugs destroyed Jewish-owned homes and businesses. Günter Grass, German author and Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Like its American hip-hop counterparts, “May Allah Bless France!” doesn’t soft-pedal the temptations of the thug life. César Winners Fill Roster at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z That baby quite likely has enough problems in his young life without now being forced into the role of poster child for “the thug cycle.” Swearing toddler video inspires terrible, racist response 2014-01-09T20:49:00Z He's your very average New York kid selling pot and getting beaten up by local thugs who rain racial slurs down on him. Want to punch a Nazi? Amazon's "Hunters" is the show for you 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z As the title suggests, it’s all about how they were seen, and, by extension, how most minority teenage boys are still often seen — not as children and young citizens, but as potential thugs. Review | ‘When They See Us’ is a powerful, overdue telling of the injustices endured by the Central Park Five 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Raise your hand if you think the people streaming through the streets of Baltimore are thugs. Bothered by Baltimore’s riots? Where have you been — for decades? 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Dissent is prohibited, quasi-military thugs control the streets, and Jews are in constant danger. Cure for the post-holiday blues: captivating crime fiction 2014-01-08T23:06:28Z But by the end of the shoot, which took about two hours, I’d gone pretty deep, reaching for my inner thug. Television: Extras in ‘I Married a Mobster’ and Other Docu-Series 2012-08-10T17:44:23Z As he offers bland platitudes, thugs whip up the audience into a mob that turns on a Muslim family. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Some critics want to debate just how racist the term "thug" is, but two points are undeniable. What's in a name? Shedding racist images and branding is just the start of breaking the Jemima Code 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z His opponent could be a towering karate champion or an army of uniformed thugs. How Bruce Lee Exploded a Stereotype With a One-Inch Punch 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Some accused police - who refused to issue a permit over concerns about security - of buckling to the will of a small group of thugs. Lady Gaga cancels Indonesian show after threats 2012-05-27T11:08:11Z But the guys at Cavalli — angular, hollow-cheeked and scowling — looked less like the ideal customers for the designer’s clothes than thugs who would boost them from the back of delivery trucks. On the Runway Blog: In Milan, the Moments that Linger 2012-01-15T17:33:00Z To help you keep track, the film counts the carnage, pausing for a sort of mock memoriam each time a thug dies. Review: ‘In Order of Disappearance’ Emits a Dash of ‘Fargo’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z A psychopath with violent tendencies, a poor upbringing and limited education might end up as a thug or an enforcer for a criminal gang. A psychopath expert's view on Dexter 2013-07-28T18:30:00Z He will also show “The Beat That My Heart Skipped,” his 2004 film about a brutal thug who wants to become a concert pianist. In Transit: Film Festival Blends French and Hong Kong 'Noir' 2011-04-21T10:00:14Z Our sons played once, but we soon saw that the neighbor boy is a violent, ill-disciplined thug, and no parent of sound mind would want him around. Social Q’s: Social Q’s: No Dibs on Love 2012-05-24T20:10:21Z Once may be regarded as unfortunate; twice is a thug’s strategy to subvert justice. The dark stars of the far right compete to bask in the glory of Tommy Robinson 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The family used to tell one in which Binion had a traffic accident in Dallas and was set upon by no less than a dozen thugs. An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Even after so many murders, love affairs, family disputes, disappointments and protracted dream sequences, he was a low-class thug with charm and mystery. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z Mr. Silva appeared in more than 130 movies and television shows, scowling through many of them as a thug, a hit man or some other nefarious character. Henry Silva, Actor Who Specialized in Menace, Dies at 95 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z In the course of the film he romances a bashful actress and engages in kung fu battles with various thugs. Critic’s Notebook: New York Asian Film Festival Offers Sturdy Hollywood Themes 2013-06-28T22:13:41Z As potentially lethal as the thugs may be, they are also slightly over-the-hill small-time bookies who seem anything but invincible, and the movie gives each a complicated personality. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z Elderly but not exactly helpless, Levinson butchers the thugs sent to detain him. ‘The Yid’: A ragtag group of Russians team up to assassinate Stalin 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Pitt, meanwhile, portrays a thug who brokers the central drug deal. The Counselor: first trailer for new Ridley Scott film released 2013-06-26T11:53:41Z Special truth commission hearings in late 1997 and early 1998 focused on allegations Madikizela-Mandela led a group of thugs known as the Mandela United Football Club who terrorized Soweto in the 1980s. New opera tells Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's story 2011-04-27T17:31:07Z The native species American bittersweet is also a thug. Perspective | Vines are a romantic addition to the garden — until they go rogue 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z We see the two foreign-born thugs, brothers, who are holding and sometimes abusing the twins. ‘Say Nothing’ by Brad Parks: A thriller that plays on our worst parental fears 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z And thugs threatened the exhibition of India’s most famous painter, M.F. In India, a Busy Fair and a Spirited Art Scene 2011-01-30T23:52:06Z Oddly, thugs marked for death frequently get into cars and taxis, even though bitter experience should have warned them that a killer is hiding in the back seat or crouched down next to the cabbie. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z Patrick whispers to Robert that he is being followed in Berlin, probably by the same pro-Putin thugs who murdered his former employer. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z He adds that the officers eventually let him go without explaining their motivations after they realized that he was not “a thug, common criminal or ordinary black man but . . . a famous football player.” NFL star Michael Bennett: Cop said he’d “blow my f**king head off” 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Washington's character Eli likes to quote Genesis and Psalm, when he's not slicing thugs with a sword. 2010-01-11T18:33:00Z Little Big Balls is a remorseless playground thug. Claws out! Why cats are causing chaos and controversy across Britain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Words such as “riot,” words such as “thug,” combinations of words that are mostly metaphorical exaggerations, such as “the city is burning.” Is CNN as bad as everyone thinks it is? Yes ... and no. 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z What we see around the banqueting table are characters of all shades and degrees of shadiness – from sinister thugs and a pale courtesan to Jesus Christ himself. Mattia Preti, the artist that makes me hungry 2010-05-21T06:15:00Z I felt that when I watched “Static Shock” as a child, years before I could put it into words and years after of soaking up the idea of my people as thugs. Finally, “a bulletproof black man”: The perfect timing of “Luke Cage” and the black nerd renaissance 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z “They depict angry black males; they’re thugs; they’re criminals,” she said of the images she saw and the deep mistrust with the media and their representations of communities of color. WATCH: Photographer Sheila Pree Bright demonstrates how little has changed in exhibit #1960NOW 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z After a school security breach, Bri moves from the page to the recording booth where her figurative language sounds more thug life than her secondhand shoe game would imply. Review | Angie Thomas follows up ‘The Hate U Give’ with the story of an aspiring hip-hop star 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Why one may be painted as a college student and the other as a drug dealer or a thug. ‘Shots Fired’: A Mystery With a Message About Police Shootings 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But Taro never becomes more than a generic machine pol, and the show’s politics are shallow, the city’s Muslim population represented mostly by cartoonish street thugs. Review: ‘Marseille’ Proves That American Cable Clichés Are Easy Exports 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The original definition in urbandictionary.com says a baller is a thug who escaped the mean streets to become a multimillionaire athlete, typically as a basketball star. What it takes to be a 'baller' 2010-06-14T00:08:00Z A bouncy Dean Martin tune plays as the thick-necked thugs tear into one another. Brad Bird Directs ?Mission: Impossible ? Ghost Protocol? 2011-12-09T15:27:23Z Trying to unburden herself of the child, she leaves him on a peasant woman’s doorstep, but rushes back to his defense when the woman cowers before the thugs who are after the baby. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z Decades after the creation of hip-hop, the genre is still falsely placed into a box as the music of thugs and gangsters. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z The “thug economics” of contemporary Naples evokes the worst of Mogadishu, where “Risto got to see what a skull looked like several days after the machete split it.” Review | A meditation on race, class — and murder — set in one of Europe’s most storied cities 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Sometime that night one such young thug bumped me so hard it could have only been a taunt and swaggered off like the dead and jailed of my yesteryears. Growing up black in the whitest city in America 2014-03-17T23:00:00Z “I always play the hit man or the thug,” Mr. Roffe says with a sigh. The Out of Towner: Touring New York City, Inside Yet Out 2011-11-17T23:19:14Z Craig, the sixth official Bond, introduced a brute, curt tone to the spy: no suave dandy, he was Her Majesty’s most efficient thug, a Jason Bourne with sharper clothes and an English accent. Skyfall: Bond and Bardem Go Boom 2012-11-09T13:00:22Z “It was like now, when people say Black Lives Matter protesters are thugs,” Crenshaw says. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z To brutal men such as Dudley and his cadre of officially sanctioned thugs, the war represents an unprecedented opportunity for wealth, power and racial dominance. ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor It reprises most of the plot and much of the gore, and rechoreographs Chan’s flashy mid-film fight between the prisoner and a dozen or so thugs, all done in one continuous shot. Spike Lee’s Oldboy: Remaking a Sick Classic 2013-11-27T16:41:48Z When they refuse to yield to demands by a Mexican drug gang to give away their business, the thugs kidnap O, causing Chon and Ben to go after them. "Savages" star Kitsch hopes third film's a charm 2012-07-03T21:25:18Z Jimmy's illusions died last week when his girlfriend, Pearl, shot herself after being disfigured by one of Sheridan's thugs. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Everyone's screwed 2010-10-25T05:01:00Z There was a local thug to deal with, and his son, the local bully, but these were questions to be answered with violence. Rewind TV: Hit & Miss; Hell on Wheels; The Fish Market: Inside Billingsgate – review 2012-05-26T23:05:38Z And when the teenage Gemma gets pregnant by Pat, who, by his own admission, “used to be a wee thug,” history initially seems to be repeating itself. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z She fronted like a thug — middle finger salute and all — and floated backup dancers’ complicated steps like they were nothing, her chilled demeanor accentuated by the icy tone of her singing voice. Rihanna’s fire-and-ice act | Concert review 2013-04-04T17:35:07Z To Gessen, Putin’s unabashed description of himself as “a thug” was key to his self-image: someone who could not be bullied, who would lash out unpredictably if he felt slighted and who relished violence. What Is Driving Vladimir Putin? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The, ah, righteous thugs and heroic hos that we celebrate achieved the whole deal; all we can do is riff charming, insignificant stuff that people will never recall. Style Invitational Week 1322: Back to the drawing board 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z We had no trouble rejecting a letter that called someone a modern-day Hitler, a thug or a racist. Running the Park Slope Food Coop newsletter taught me not to believe in conspiracy theories 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Uday's circle of fellow thugs, minders and party animals looks like a snapshot of 20th- century mob culture. 'The Devil's Double' captures horror of Hussein son's look-alike 2011-08-04T20:00:06Z It was also The Birth of a Nation that introduced the image of the violent, threatening black male beast and the menacing black thug. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z He wonders how working men, in the public imagination, have been reduced to “knuckle-dragging thugs.” Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z That same fellow scares off street thugs intent on stealing Needle, Arya’s small sword. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Arya takes up with assassins' guild 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z As he and Blanche struggle for dominance in the household, Stanley appears as a thug and an innocent, an aggressor and a victim. Ben Foster Brings His Beast Mode to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z “I thought he was a little snooty,” he said of Mr. Colbert, “and I think he thought that I was a half-wit thug.” Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z In the latter, he played the husband of Audrey Hepburn, a blind woman terrorized by thugs in a truly frightening film. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., star of 'The FBI,' dead at 95 2014-05-03T15:39:30Z He gained enormous popularity for a series of Hindi films in which he played a reformed thug who follows the teachings of nonviolence advocate and Indian independence hero Mohandas Gandhi. Indian court gives Dutt 4 more weeks before prison 2013-04-17T09:16:05Z Caesar is a tyrant, Cassius is a thug, and the Roman rabble speaks in dumb unison, mindlessly turning into a mob. The assassins are back in Folger’s spooky ‘Caesar’ But Francis said, ‘I want to look at the Mafia not as thugs and gangsters but like royalty in Rome.’ Abe Vigoda, Actor of ‘Godfather’ Fame, Dies at 94 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z “You didn’t kill him too good, Ray,” a thug named Renzo remarks as he looks at a wall-sized security monitor and sees the stoic, longhaired Mr. C waltzing into their facility. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 13: Starting Position 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z But Wyclef soon made the leap from victim to aspiring thug. The Would-Be Prince of Port-au-Prince 2011-07-17T04:45:24Z “Breaking Bad” was the story of one bland-seeming, underachiever’s journey from chemistry teacher to thug. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Jimmy's Step Toward the Netherworld 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z There’s even a plot strand, involving an angry nebbish’s ill-considered involvement with a crew of thugs, that echoes “Fargo.” In ‘Happy Valley,’ a Woman’s on the Case 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z When his star center Patrick Ewing retaliated after being consistently fouled, Thompson writes, “a whole bunch of people who never played the game saw a Black team defending itself and called us thugs.” In His Autobiography, the College Basketball Giant John Thompson Is Plainspoken and Profound 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z I’m gonna suggest a topic: Vladimir Putin and what a thug he is. The host of ‘Redacted Tonight’ is making his mock 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z It was so tame, so tween it could make you weep for the thug life era of New Kids on the Block. 10 best moments from MTV's Video Music Awards 2010-09-13T12:36:00Z Two days ago, thugs beat up a well-known Syrian political cartoonist, fracturing his fingers and hand. British Oil Company With Ties To Assad Family Carries On With Drilling 2011-08-26T18:08:52Z "He plays no thug in this picture," the actress told reporters. Co-star sings Gandolfini's praises 2013-07-31T10:00:11Z There is no evidence that I’m aware of that the adoption of police departments of semi-automatic, large capacity pistols led to an arms race with street thugs. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z Jorge is a middle-aged, mild-mannered forestry worker in southern Chile, living in a neighborhood in which a thug named Kalule is terrorizing the residents. From Chile, That Hollow Feeling of Vengeance 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Overnight, Lucas finds himself keeping order in what is apparently the bloodiest town in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, all while mob thugs from New York are trying to hunt him down. TV Tonight: Banshee 2013-01-11T15:56:45Z Everything in True Crime will be familiar to anyone who has played G.T.A., whether the mission structure, the profane thugs or the car chases. The Best Games of E3: From New Halo to Epic Mickey Mouse 2010-06-21T21:54:00Z It looks like a lot of Vietnamese gangster thugs in a dark, loungey space, with hip-hop music playing. An Unconventional Guide to Charlotte and Tampa 2012-07-27T18:49:38Z A young man named Virgil falls in with a preacher who is actually the leader of a gang of thugs. John Wray is hard to pin down 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Real authoritarianism, he and others argue, does not arrive on a wave of jackbooted thugs marching down neighborhood streets. The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z A gang of thugs has just looted the Gotham City Stock Exchange and crashed out on motorcycles, hostages in tow. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z In a plot that broadly equates the hypocritical cultures of the thug and the capitalist, Mack commits heinous crimes and not only escapes punishment for them but even receives a lifetime peerage for his trouble. Stanley Chase Dies at 87; Gave New York Macheath 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The actors play cops, bartenders, dancing girls, club bosses, thugs and even that guy at that all-night vegetable stand, in roles much more prominent than traditional voice-overs. Video Game to Play in Vintage Gumshoes 2011-05-06T20:13:40Z Suddenly he was “classless,” a “thug” from Compton, and any manner of other negative terms that one can substitute for the n-word. Sherman was no longer human, but a racist caricature. America’s racial double standard: White celebs are excused, but black stars are “thugs” 2014-01-24T16:16:00Z Tony Hogan is no hero – and yet, of course, Iris forgives him and welcomes her swastika-wearing thug back once too often. Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Float … by Kerry Hudson - review 2012-07-25T07:00:04Z His unconventional looks — flattened nose, full lips and muscular frame — allowed him to play roles from thug to police officer, thief to priest, Cyrano de Bergerac to an unshakable secret agent. French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Some thugs are beating down the door of his penthouse; leaping might be preferable to what they've got planned. Limitless Review: Wall Street on Steroids 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z After stints as a menial laborer and petty thug, he turned to poetry writing. Emmanuel Carrère’s New Book Profiles Edward Limonov 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Who knows what kind of incandescent thug life in they’ll immerse us in next time? ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Best of 2013 2013-12-31T13:01:14Z In this futuristic drama, set at a time when democracy has collapsed in America and the land is ruled by thugs, Costner chances upon an old mail van and reinstates the country’s postal service. You're so vain! The phenomenon of the self-loving actor-director 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z She will sashay through some neon-lit nightclub and accept with a knowing smile a Stoli on the rocks and some badinage from the barman, before putting the smackdown on some brutish thug. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In between are telegraphic, often cryptic sketches of people who have ended up alone: thugs about to be murdered, a starving homeless person, an artist turned recluse, a mental patient with visions. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z But this is fiction rooted firmly in reality: that of the so-called “baby gangs” of teenage, and even younger, thugs loosely connected to the Camorra who have terrorized parts of Naples in recent years. Natural Born Killers: Italy’s ‘Baby Gangs’ Blast Through Roberto Saviano’s Debut Novel 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z A black man is humiliated by a white thug: it was the perfect apartheid metaphor, it seemed to us. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z It offers newsreels and newspaper headlines that trace how Americans saw or read about random attacks by Nazi thugs and punitive laws that targeted Jewish-owned business and denied Jewish citizens access to parks and theaters. Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z His account was horrific, and not only because of what it foreshadowed: ordinary Germans joining Nazi thugs in what he characterized as a “holiday mood” of bloody anti-Semitic violence. | 'Varian and Putzi': ?Varian and Putzi: A 20th Century Tale? ? Review 2011-10-08T00:41:18Z When police return fire, the warehouse explodes into flames while Amarilla and his thugs speed away in an SUV. 'True Detective' recap: Carnage erupts as homicide probe deepens 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Vicious murderers were, after all, ignorant, dumb thugs—not polished, skilled writers. This is your brain on murder: What the mind of a psychopath looks like 2014-03-09T18:30:00Z You still think we’re monkeys, monsters, beasts, thugs, the living dead, minorities? The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage. 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Heroes die, villains triumph, peasants and slaves suffer horribly and knights are as likely to be plate-metal-encased thugs and hoodlums as they are noble icons of chivalry. The essential guide to "Game of Thrones" 2011-04-09T21:01:00Z His filmic eye sorts out the people who populate the play: Tutsi elders; Hutu generals; thugs schooled in mass murder; mortified U.N. peacekeepers; corrupted government mouthpieces. Mosaic opens its inaugural curtain with “Unexplored Interior” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z “We knew about the Ford strike at River Rouge, where company thugs bloodied the strikers. We painted huge murals and put on plays. My part was the heartless banker evicting Okies in the Dust Bowl.” James Stevenson, Ex-New Yorker Illustrator, Dies at 87 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Of course it was definitely challenging, because this kind of character, a foreigner, a drifter, a thug almost, becomes a hero and saves the lives of Chinese people. Carpetbagger Blog: Zhang Yimou and the Challenges of Filming in China 2011-12-21T16:44:15Z Things are fine — until a team of thugs tracks them down. Crime fiction: welcome returns by Brunetti and Anna Pigeon 2014-04-09T19:30:37Z Other authors, artists and dramatists also portrayed pirates as swashbuckling adventurers, rather than heartless thugs and killers. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z Yet Meadows also ensures that we can't simply dismiss Combo as a thug; he lashes out at Milky ostensibly because he's black, but he's also deeply envious of Milky's loving family background. This Is England redux 2010-09-03T23:03:00Z In the mold of Lee Marvin or Lee Van Cleef, he was a first-rate thug, and his deadpan look was perfect for disaster pictures or comedies. George Kennedy, Versatile Actor Who Won an Oscar for ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 91 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z And what are the probabilities that anyone fighting back against unsanctioned police violence could be thought of as anything beyond a thug or a murderer by the greater public? The Powerful Perspective of “Queen & Slim” 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Like the silky thugs in Harold Pinter's early dramas, Pope puts the promise of peril in every quiet conversation — of asking questions with a confessor's confidentiality but the undertone of mortal threat. Animal Kingdom: A Cool and Creepy Crime Drama 2010-08-14T06:50:00Z Tom Hardy is not physically larger than Christian Bale or the other thugs that are around him, so really, in terms of photography, the approach was to keep Bane looking mysterious and massive. The Dark Knight Rises: the team behind the trilogy's epic finale 2012-07-13T23:01:00Z Rafting down the Mississippi, Twain captured pre-Civil War America with a picaresque tale of marks and swindlers, innocents and thugs. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z In the mind of the officer, she is still the mother of a thug. Review: ‘American Son’ Puts Kerry Washington in a Maternal Nightmare 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z You tweeted this week about, quote, Bob Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs. Perspective | Sean Hannity, Chris Wallace and why Trump wants to control follow-up questions 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Protesters often accuse the army and state security of paying or encouraging thugs to quash peaceful demonstrations. Eleven killed in Egypt clashes over army rule 2012-05-02T12:45:11Z But he performed it, then brought on a guest, Freddie Foxx, who denounced fake thugs for lack of creativity — and then rapped, threatening violence. Music Review: Hip-Hop History, Recreated by Those Who Made It 2010-08-29T23:06:00Z Lau portrays a triad thug seeking to recover money lost in a loan shark scheme. China's 'Beijing Blues' wins at Taiwan film fest 2012-11-24T15:24:11Z The townsfolk are being bullied by an entrepreneur and his hired thugs, who want to bring a railroad through the community. Movie Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z As seen in her knowing runway stride, sultry possibilities become real and hand-to-hand confrontations are rendered acrobatic as Kravitz gracefully leaps and dives against thugs. The Best Genre Movies of 2022 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z It certainly doesn't help that the show opens with her in hot pursuit of some gun-wielding thug as he races through a very crowded Battery Park. Debra Messing's talents misfire in 'The Mysteries of Laura' 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z His flow lacks the dexterity that usually distinguishes the finest of the thug life bards. Chief Keef: Finally Rich – review 2013-01-06T00:06:31Z With his imposing height and menacing physique, Mr. Kiel spent much of his career playing thugs and monsters. Richard Kiel, best remembered as the James Bond villain Jaws, dies at 74 “We write a lot of young men off as thugs, but an apple on a tree does not start off as rotten,” Ms. Hightower said. A Tupac Musical Gets a Second Chance 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z A force of nature, she can sweet-talk a thug into surrendering his ammo clip at the bar, and exploits and protects her girls with equal zeal. Review: 'Ruined' is an intimate glimpse into a war-torn nation's women and warriors 2010-07-12T23:42:00Z In Rufus Norris's revival of Cabaret, at the Savoy, the sight of Nazi thugs turning cartwheels is far more sickening than any punches. Stage fright: which plays have left you reeling in horror? 2012-10-11T13:37:50Z Sometimes the battlegrounds were artistic, as in the furor over his farewell production after 10 years at Salzburg, a 2001 “Die Fledermaus” featuring drugs and Nazi thugs. Gerard Mortier, Opera Visionary, Dies at 70 2014-03-09T12:08:40Z Through the routine, their insults of the Nazi skater — “He’s a thug and bad for the sport” — grow sharper and more vulgar, as if to make clear that the depiction does not equal endorsement. Review: ‘History of the World’ Repeats, as Farce 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z With these mini thugs in pursuit, he dashes into a boarded-up house used as a drug hangout. 'Moonlight' Is One of the Best Films at TIFF 2016 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z And for a small band of thugs, it’s the perfect setup for a robbery. Review | What does it mean to be Native American? A new novel offers a bracing answer. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z When things turn dire for Xavier, his respectability politics are all he has to cling to: “He wasn’t just some random black perp, a thug from the ’hood. When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, "Baroni" — about a street thug turned professional boxer — flopped at the box office. Leonard Nimoy dies: Remembering his non-'Star Trek' movies 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Babel is its soul, and Jonathan David Martin gives a bookish, slightly anxious performance as the writer whose exercises in make-believe and subversion get perfected by thugs pursuing power. Review | This Putin learns the power of lies in ‘Describe the Night’ 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “Breaking” was the story of the bumpkin let loose in the big city, like “Babe” with people instead of a pig, while “Mafia” is thugs in black felt hats. Television Review: ‘Amish Mafia,’ on Discovery Channel 2012-12-11T22:46:55Z Bernthal’s take on Castle also had a more solid array of characters against which to react than the eminently disposable thugs prevalent in the character’s prior incarnations. Why the Punisher’s Netflix series will need more than big guns 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In the sleepy town of Norbold, a brilliant young black man, jailed for a minor offense, is killed in his cell by a vicious thug nicknamed Barking Mad. Crime fiction from Sicily and Britain, and true tales of famous corpses 2013-03-07T20:45:06Z Lawmen by turns were thugs, protectors or both. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The pagan pomposity of Larsson's thugs, their Wagnerian self-importance, their magazines called Valhalla and White Rebel or their racist music company named "Ragnarcock Records", are surely both contemptible and comic. The Expo Files by Stieg Larsson? review 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z But then you don't cast an actor of Bardem's calibre as a thug. Javier Bardem: is he the best ever Bond baddie? 2012-10-27T23:21:00Z ‘You are not a big black thug, you are just like your shoes – ordinary and completely white.’ It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z The black thug was not the protagonist and in many cases he may not have even had a name. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z “I was all anti-him, like, he’s just a thug,” she says. Dangerous, growing, yet unnoticed: the rise of America's white gangs 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In more than 100 movies, Mr. Morgan played Western bad guys, characters with names like Rocky and Shorty, loyal sidekicks, judges, sheriffs, soldiers, thugs and police chiefs. Harry Morgan, ?M*A*S*H? and ?Dragnet? Actor, Dies at 96 2011-12-07T16:47:35Z Throughout his 49 years of life, he's been painted an angry black man, a woman beater and a thug. Writer-activist Kevin Powell says his new memoir tells 'a human story' 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Last Friday, the tweets were republicised, by a coterie of influential conservative figures on Twitter – with the “alt-right” media thug Mike Cernovich leading the charge with a relentless thread of icky buried treasure. Was James Gunn the first undeserving victim of Hollywood’s new zero-tolerance policy? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Rejoining the local secondary, he is bullied, but unharmed, by thugs who one day chase him into a neighbour's garden shed. The Universe versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence – review 2013-03-15T17:45:01Z Those who step towards the microphone are hurried away by thugs before they even do anything. Minsk 2011 ? review 2011-08-24T17:41:57Z But, whereas Brown guns down thugs, Clark would be more likely to take them skateboarding and then snap them with their junk hanging out. Larry Clark: teenage rampage 2011-02-13T09:30:00Z We never got to hear what the thugs wanted from him, which was probably just as well, since it’s hard to imagine anything that would have made sense. ‘The Americans’ Season 4, Episode 10: Family Anguish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z But like the masked thugs who break into rich man Hawke’s house, commandeered a summer time slot that the big-boy movies consider their turf. The Urge for The Purge 2013-06-09T20:11:11Z Its eye bounced along above the pavement, as if connected to a body that was offering no resistance, that was being carried off limp and compliant by armed thugs in state uniforms. Perspective | Through the lens of a CNN camera on the ground, a view of American disintegration 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Notably, he’s also wearing snug-fitting jeans, which, like the sandals, were probably meant to signal his thug’s menacing nonconformity but mostly just draw attention to his body. Remembering James Caan and His Potent Mix of Swagger and Delicacy 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Early in the film, as Eric is sipping a drink at a dusty makeshift cantina, a pickup full of clownish thugs spins out of control on the road. ‘The Rover,’ a Drama With Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Klugman's sporadic film roles included a thug in the thriller Cry Terror! Jack Klugman obituary 2012-12-25T12:14:42Z His dad was a renowned thug around these parts — till he was finally, inevitably, shot down by the police. Review | With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Those groups — skaters, Internet hip-hop nerds, curious indie rock partisans, idiosyncratic thugs, nihilists-in-training — came to Odd Future naturally. Arts & Leisure Preview: Angry Rhymes, Dirty Mouth, Goofy Kid 2011-05-04T11:00:08Z Targeting thugs or infected enemies for stealth takedowns is confusing, because switching to first person forces you to reorient your position relative to your quarry. Video Game Review: The Amazing Spider-Man, From Activision 2012-07-10T22:59:59Z He had graduated from third thug on the left to first thug in the middle. Ernest Borgnine: Farewell to Marty and McHale 2012-07-09T16:06:35Z The early Social Realist paintings borrowed from Giorgio de Chirico’s haunted plazas and the commanding figuration of the Renaissance for its robed and hooded thugs, who were big, muscular and threatening. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Stern then directed his attention to Putin and described the leader as a "human stain," "thug," and "bully." Howard Stern slams the right for supporting "scumbag" Putin: "I used to love the Republicans" 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Most gangster movies focus on the big bosses and godfathers; “Goodfellas” and its descendants are about the grinders, the middlemen, the working-class thugs. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z With a gun to her head, she was forced into the back of a truck with thugs who said they intended to “marry” her. Here's What Rand Paul Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z He soon goes to Facebook instead, looking up an old friend, a tattooed fellow who posts pictures of himself delighting in thug poses. Review: In ‘Sollers Point,’ a Hard Road to the Straight and Narrow 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z "You DO NOT deserve to be in this position. The position that allows thugs to get in your face and yell, curse and degrade you," Mattingly wrote. Simon & Schuster won't distribute book written by officer involved in Breonna Taylor raid after all 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z When "Remember Me" begins, Nilin is getting her brains scrambled by thugs in the Bastille. Review: 'Remember Me' a mind-blowing head trip 2013-06-06T14:12:08Z The new series promises guest appearances by actor Stephen Fry and comedian Lenny Henry, as well as the return of old favorites including the Cybermen and the “interplanetary thugs” of the Judoon. Dr Who's Whittaker: I've proved I can fly the Tardis, what next? 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Belmondo played roles from thug to police officer, thief to priest, Cyrano de Bergerac to an unshakable secret agent. France pays national tribute to New Wave actor Belmondo 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “Whether or not the hipsters and health nuts charmed by Thug Kitchen realize this, vegetarian, vegan and plant-strong culture in the black experience predates pernicious thug stereotypes,” he wrote. Weeknight Vegetarian: Black bean tortas, hold the expletives (and the appropriation) A portrait emerges of a traumatised community cut off from the world, where thugs kill with impunity and residents are too terrified of reprisal to provide information to the cops. Murder, she wrote 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He moves between thugs and bankers, ordering hits just as confidently as he orders drinks. In ‘Manhattan Beach,’ Jennifer Egan’s heroine dives deep for family secrets 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z After they escape the danger, his colleague predicts that the thugs will kill some unwary tourist before the night ends. Book World: ‘Midnight in Europe,’ by Alan Furst As one of the original Method actors, he would spend a seven-decade career bringing his characters to life and exploring what made them tick, whether they were thugs and criminals or, less frequently, shining heroes. Eli Wallach dies: 10 memorable movie roles from his long career 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z After her arrest, Bloom's bank accounts were frozen and, in her book's most memorable scene, she was beaten by a thug after refusing to pay protection money. Aaron Sorkin to adapt poker memoir 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Unlike other detective shows that traffic in the black and white of good and bad characters, "Terriers" embraces the hazy in-between, from devious ex-buddies to ambivalent teenage accomplices to reformed thugs. "Terriers": One of this fall's only gems 2010-10-27T18:45:00Z Got roughed up by thugs in pro-mubarak crowd..punched and kicked repeatedly. Journalists detail on Twitter media attacks in Egypt 2011-02-04T03:26:43Z Mr. Wahlberg told him that he and the new movie’s director, Rupert Wyatt, had discussed the possibility of casting Mr. Caan as a thug in the updated version. Mark Wahlberg and James Caan Discuss ‘The Gambler’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z She saw it as a political protest play about a "black man humiliated by a white thug". The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011-08-19T23:10:48Z He tweeted recently about another X Factor judge, Cheryl Cole, writing: "How did this violent thug become the nation's sweetheart?" The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z Davis: We've always thought of thug as an attitude and we wanted people to take control of their plate and get bad-ass in the kitchen. World Chefs: Profanity-filled 'Thug Kitchen' cookbook urges healthy eating 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z He can play a slave or a thug, a buffoon or a saint. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Less amusingly, Ferrar and his friend are confronted on the street by five drunken SS thugs who force them to give the Nazi salute and shout “Heil Hitler.” Book World: ‘Midnight in Europe,’ by Alan Furst Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon pretend to be women to escape the clutches of mob thugs after they witness a massacre. 5 great movies about deception 2013-01-25T00:33:09Z He's not a criminal mastermind, just a two-bit thug who more closely resembles a vulture. Jumbled 'Last Hijack' focuses on a wholly unsympathetic figure 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z This time, his hero is not simply wiping the floor with thugs in Nebraska. Jack Reacher: Lee Child’s giant hero battles to save America in ‘Night School’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z When he goes to gamble away his sorrows — in blackjack sequences edited with mechanical pizazz — thugs eventually rush in. ‘Wild Card,’ Starring Jason Stratham 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Or a whole new gang of brilliant international thugs with really cool names? TV Picks: 'Sleepy Hollow,' 'Gotham,' 'Blacklist,' 'Madame Secretary' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s crowded with noble, villainous and comical characters: police spies and magistrates; radical firebrands and anxious liberals; pompous officials and plain-spoken workers; servants, tradesman, gossips, thugs and children. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z “I think they wanted somebody who would be a corporate thug of some sort, or perhaps a doctor or lawyer or something respectable,” he told the television interviewer Charlie Rose. Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The Johnny Rotten of Russian literature appears to have joined the fascist thugs. Michael Dirda reviews ‘Limonov’ by Emmanuel Carrère One woman has her throat slashed in the first five minutes; another is placed under a carpet and then beaten violently with belts by a gang of thugs. Why Polish gangster films 'on steroids' are making it big at the British box office 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z In these nearly forgotten stories, Mr. Ditko excels at thugs, pugs and mystics, old salts and mad scientists. Steve Ditko's Thugs and Mystics 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Alejandro is finally convinced to tell his flock to flee, and the thugs are conveniently dealt with by the horde he lets loose. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2 Finale: All Thumbs 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z In a world of thugs and criminals, you could have a Latin American father be the most virtuous person. "Better Call Saul" star on playing "the only character breaking good when everybody's breaking bad" 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z But the guy’s so outsize that we’re never likely to see him as anything other than a thug or a gentle giant. | 'The Chaperone': ?The Chaperone?: Wrestling With Laughs 2011-02-18T00:46:59Z You’re going to end up as a low-level thug or an enforcer for a criminal gang. How psychopaths take over 2012-10-13T17:00:00Z They meet again one evening, when Amélie is grabbed on the street by two thugs, and Arman, who happens to be passing by, recognizes her and intervenes. ‘2 Autumns, 3 Winters,’ Homage to the New Wave 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z “If I set them up as ‘that thug’ then they’re easy to dismiss,” Tipping says. Kicks: sneaker violence gets its own movie 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z McDormand’s shocked reaction during a sequence when someone is abducted is genuine; she hadn’t been told the other actor would be hustled away by thugs. Frances McDormand: two defining roles, two decades apart 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Either innately or through study, McQueen understood that he was a story: working class wonderboy, hooligan of haute couture, aesthetic thug. 2010-02-12T03:15:00Z “We don’t treat them as lovable little thugs,” Laurents told The Times. ‘West Side Story’: How We Covered the Classic N.Y.C. Musical 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Macon Blair plays an emotionally unstable homeless man named Dwight who receives word that the thug who's been in prison for murdering his parents is about to get out. 'Transcendence'? Not in this Johnny Depp sci-fi thriller 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Lovers of camp and cannabis are the most plausible audience for “Sabotage,” given the giggle-to-bullet ratio in this extravagantly silly movie about a gang of marauding Drug Enforcement Administration undercover thugs. Movie Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Back in ‘Sabotage’ 2014-03-27T22:49:41Z All the elements are there: the egomaniacal robber baron and his band of thugs who invade the small town, pit the locals against each other and ride roughshod over the law. From Gunsmoke to Deadwood: why the US turns to the wild west in times of crisis 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z But all of this comes to pass after the sobering opener in the middle of the desert, as a thug holds a gun on his brother-in-law Hank. Best TV episodes of the decade, a highly subjective list 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z James Maher, one of four agents monitoring Allen, called Sheeran a union “thug and not a hit man,” according to the investigator’s reports. ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z In the novel’s conclusion, Mark does battle with the thug who killed his wife and other well-armed men as he tries to free hostages being held in Pate’s mountain fortress. Michael Koryta’s ‘Rise the Dark’ introduces a villain bent on taking over the U.S. 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Warnings and threats — from rival thugs, acquaintances and the F.B.I. — follow Gio from bakery to bodega, turning his journey into a gantlet of anxiety and distrust. ‘The Birthday Cake’ Review: Baked Hoods 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z His reputation among his fellow Victorians was that of a vain and excitable thug. The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann – review 2013-04-17T13:00:03Z Mr. Esposito, then 22, played a sociopathic street thug, a role he researched, he said, by hanging out with “ne’er-do-well young bucks” in Philadelphia, where the play is set. Giancarlo Esposito, an Actor Known for Divergent Roles 2012-06-01T04:30:02Z He lectures the thugs on tolerance and pluralism, tells them their families would be ashamed of them and shames them into leaving, while the entire household bursts out cheering. “A Gay Girl in Damascus”: Behind the twisted tale of a blogger who “catfished” the whole world 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s a sound I will forever equate with the concentration “Boardwalk Empire” demanded of its viewers, asking them to follow along as a parade of nearly indistinguishable thugs and crime bosses in suits rushed past. ‘Boardwalk Empire’s’ pitch-perfect goodbye Unquestioned and uninterrupted, this black-garbed thug regales us with 20 years' worth of kidnapping, torture and coldblooded murder, all the while scribbling compulsively in a large notebook. 'El Sicario, Room 164': confessions of a hit man 2012-01-12T21:15:04Z Gleeson also worked with McDonagh's brother Martin on In Bruges, and The Guard shares a similar reckless delight in placing highly literate, indeed literary, dialogue in the mouths of thugs and surly, overweight country-mice. Don Cheadle: 'Acting can be such a grind' 2011-08-11T21:00:00Z The shaven-skulled, quick-witted Jimmy confronts Ian with the hard look and menacing, I-dare-you manner of a thug, but he’s probably good company on an ordinary day, as long as no one sets him off. Review: ‘Quietly’ Rivetingly Revisits the Troubles in Belfast 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Dunn, who is white, had described the music to his fiancee as "thug music." Fla. man guilty of lesser counts in music shooting 2014-02-16T01:11:57Z Dead for more than 400 years, reduced to caricature as a thug and a brute in the famous Holbein portrait that hangs in the Frick Museum, Cromwell here feels shimmeringly alive, full of pathos. A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The Irish action star plays a retired secret agent who again suffers a family kidnapping and, this time, decimates the thug population of Istanbul 1. Taken 2: Liam Neeson Proves Age and Body Count Are Just Numbers 2012-10-05T14:00:18Z I was either a cop or a thug who was getting shot by a gun. ‘It has to be hot. It has to be creative’: Don Cheadle on his 10-year quest to play Miles Davis 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z “The Kalashnikov marks the guerilla, the terrorist, the child soldier, the dictator, and the thug — all of whom have found it to be a ready equalizer against morally or materially superior foes.” Jewelry Designed to Disarm 2012-11-27T15:59:55Z The laughter started again when the soulful thug adrift in “Only God Forgives” slid a hand in his dead mother’s eviscerated belly, seemingly going for her womb. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: Miike’s Honest Cop, Winding Refn’s Wallpaper 2013-05-22T15:14:03Z These thugs — most young enough to be Harry's grandsons — loiter in and around a pedestrian tunnel near the housing estates where Harry lives. Harry Brown: A Gran Torino That Drives on the Left 2010-04-29T20:55:00Z He now painted tennis tournaments, not matches in the ring between thugs with mashed faces. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z Ornamental plants once considered vigorous and flattering of the gardener turned out to be thugs or wild invaders. The garden evolves over time, but so does the gardener. Margaret Roach should know. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z “The Houseguest” was a comic gangster story in which a thug ingratiates himself with a Long Island family, then keeps them hostage - at least they think he does. Correction: Obit-Thomas Berger story 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z I bet he was one of the lucky ones: not quite nerdy enough to be bullied, not quite sporty enough to be a thug. Playground Pain and Pleasure 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z This seems to be the movie's essential conflict — until a gang of masked thugs break into the house, demanding that Kyle hand over everything he's got. 'Trespass': Enter at your own risk 2011-10-13T20:13:04Z The tabloids took notice and printed countless stories about a young white investment banker getting preyed upon by a gang of thugs in the heart of crime-ridden New York City. An Artist Revises the Racist News Coverage of the Central Park Five 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z He’s a high-ranking political dissident, a thug and a celebrity known as the Milkman. ‘Milkman’ Slogs Through Political and Cultural Tensions in Northern Ireland 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Yeah, before you jump out there and call this person a thug, talk about the failed War on Drugs, and how his 18 arrests almost led to no convictions. "It's not a enough to indict individuals; we have to indict systems": Author Wes Moore on racism 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The questioning, which was polite but insistent, didn’t turn out well for Trump, who came off looking like a movie thug as he rudely responded to Mason, “Are you talking to me?” Perspective | As interviews get tougher, Team Trump doubles down on avoidance 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z An oral history of street art: At the Museum of Contemporary Art's graffiti exhibition, an artist named Mister Cartoon tells of his own personal journey from thug to painter. Today's must-see viral videos 2011-07-28T18:29:00Z In his revenge fantasy of a play, Dorfman dramatized the confrontation between a woman who was tortured by a Latin American regime and the police-state thug who supposedly did the torturing. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z A washed-up Hollywood actor is kidnapped by thugs on the way to work in Shreveport, La., and fights for his life. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z There’s a scene where a thug flicks a cigarette and it hits McManus right in the eye. How we made The Usual Suspects 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Because that thug is played by the British action automaton Jason Statham, the movie is obliged to include a fair amount of ultraviolence to satisfy that star’s carnivorous fan base. Movie Review: In ‘Redemption,’ Jason Statham Teams With a Nun 2013-06-28T00:22:12Z Although cruel and dangerous, the thugs holding the children are clearly not the brains of this billion-dollar crime — but who is? ‘Say Nothing’ by Brad Parks: A thriller that plays on our worst parental fears 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Mom — a redheaded orphan who feared Dad was a thug — was impressed when his scientific acuity landed him at Stuyvesant High. Why my father fasted on Yom Kippur: On survival, memory, and the power of a family story 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Later, Roger uses thugs to evict a sitting tenant from a family property. A Simple Life – review 2012-08-02T20:30:01Z “He’s a thief and a thug and a killer.” Washington theaters shine a spotlight on Vladimir Putin 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z If he were in a Hollywood movie, it would be as third thug from the right. In Darkness: How a Swindler Became a Schindler 2012-02-09T16:59:24Z Pokeweed, a thug by summer’s end, is already eight feet tall in untended areas. Perspective | Heavy rains can damage a vegetable garden — but the gardener can protect it 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Roman wants the desk to run with it but to blame "antifa" instead of Mencken's extremist thugs, the real culprits. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z He spent 15 years as a reporter on the criminal-justice beat, reporting on cops, crooks, drugs and thugs. A journalist on the crime beat becomes the subject of some skeptical journalism 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z And on the very day that Mr. Van Damme’s thug squad turns up, Henry finds himself also confronting one of those demons. Movie Review: ‘Enemies Closer’ Stars a Ruthless Jean-Claude Van Damme 2014-01-24T00:28:17Z Congress approved a law punishing Russian thugs, including those involved in Magnitsky’s death. ‘Red Notice’: corruption and murder in the new Russia 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z America soon fell in love with this chubby-cheeked little girl as she fled burning buildings, held thugs at bay with a pistol and clung to the underside of a train. Diana Serra Cary, Child Star ‘Baby Peggy’ of Silent Films, Dies at 101 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z With his 17 fellow elders, an army of administrators, thugs and villains, he created a Jewish hierarchy to carry out his policies with demented precision. The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg ? review 2011-07-08T09:05:01Z “Grotesque,” the midseason premiere focused entirely on Nick’s efforts to survive trekking across a brutal desert overrun by gun-toting thugs and feral dogs. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z If you’re its future, a thug tells him, this city’s in big trouble. 'Gotham' Recap: Take It Away, Balloonman 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z This is the real deal, the author seems to growl, the stakes are life and death, and let me tell you life is cheap to these international operatives/organized criminals/mercenary thugs. “Whisky Tango Foxtrot”: A techno-thriller with a soul 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z In his eyes the undergrowth was populated by a toxic combination of media enemies, leftwing intellectuals and old Labour thugs who never "got aspiration". Fiona Millar: 'His perceptions about people and acute eye for the comic make it a good read' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z She initiates sex with him and, later in the novel, saves him from murderous thugs. Book World: ‘Murder, D.C.’ by Neely Tucker 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z For those who require a slightly wordier summary, a low-level thug invades a grieving widower's home and murders his adorable beagle puppy – i.e., the "effing around" part. Don't check into Peacock's John Wick spinoff "The Continental," not even to check out Mel Gibson 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z In this film he’s a gentle giant who used to be a thug: as the movie opens, his character, Ray Bradstone, is being released after seven years in prison. | 'The Chaperone': ?The Chaperone?: Wrestling With Laughs 2011-02-18T00:46:59Z In fact, he says, some of the so-called patriots were little more than thugs who harassed and persecuted loyalist-leaning citizens until they either fled or surrendered to circumstances. ‘Bunker Hill:’ a city, a siege, a new book by Nathaniel Philbrick 2013-05-15T22:57:37Z Early on, Nick insults a braggy thug by comparing him to TV, a meaningless barb when nearly everything on television today is better than "By the Gun." Mob movie 'By the Gun' misses its mark 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z "It goes without saying that 'thug' is a loaded word, which in our politically correct, post-racial society, has become the polite way to say" the n-word, wrote Maya Francis for The Root. What's in a name? Shedding racist images and branding is just the start of breaking the Jemima Code 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Serbs first took to the streets Dec. 8 after thugs beat an opposition leader with brass knuckles, briefly knocking him unconscious and injuring his two associates. Actor brothers take center stage in Serbia’s street protests 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z In “American Buffalo,” Teach is a thug prone to crackpot theories, bordering on paranoia, about his friends and associates and human nature in general. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z He lifts and dumps one of the thugs’ two Hummers onto the other as if they were toy cars. Books of The Times: In Thomas Perry?s ?Strip,? Affable Thugs, Rough Justice 2010-05-26T22:24:00Z Every time you see another stupid thug playing the peacock, blame them. Review: ‘Legend,’ Starring Tom Hardy as the Gangster Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Daughter’s warning is prophetic, for Chalky is quickly gunned down in an alley by Valentin’s thugs. 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: With 2 episodes remaining, no one's safe 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Politicians curried favours from the Murdochs and fiddled their expenses, the police had become arrogant, over-paid footballers behave like "cheap thugs on and off the field". Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z Its thugs simply reach into the museum of human-made misery and pull out something at once horribly familiar, and terribly alien. Immolation of Jordanian pilot aims to drag us back to barbarism 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z He wears them even in this darkened studio, ever since he was targeted in a Mafia-style revenge plot last year, when a thug hired by an embittered Bolshoi soloist threw sulfuric acid in Filin’s face. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty In a nightclub, conferring with an underboss, he points out various thugs and notes his dislike and distrust of them all. Review: John Travolta Has the Dapper Look, but ‘Gotti’ Is a Mess 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z For instance, in one early draft Flynn and Rapunzel flee some thugs, ending up hopping across rock pillars on the edge of a canyon. Film: Disney Ties Lots of Hopes to Lots of Hair 2010-11-20T19:13:00Z What united the two projects was Mr. Cooke’s artistry: The heroes and villains, the thugs and their mistresses, the everyday men and women, all looked as if they had stepped out of vintage Hollywood. Darwyn Cooke, Comic Book Artist With a Retro Take, Dies at 53 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Trump’s movement flourishes without white hoods and burning crosses, without jackboots, gangs of thugs, insignias, patriotic anthems, without secret police or any state power at all. The Plot Against America: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z But he came across as a sympathetic outsider, not a thug, and as someone who was deeply uncomfortable with murder. What “Serial” Really Taught Us 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Speaking of perceived perception, one young man muses that the term “thug,” which Mr. Dunn used, has become a code word for an offensive racial epithet. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Explores Social Justice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Tributes flooded in for an actor who won three Emmys and showed that being fat, bald and playing thugs was no impediment to charisma. James Gandolfini, master Soprano, dies at 51 2013-06-20T03:06:00Z One day a bunch of teenage thugs set their pit bull on Bobby. Cats can make you laugh, cry, lose sleep – and then break your heart 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z They nickname him “Sneaky Pete,” and he’s almost a footnote in this prologue — until the thugs mention his real name. Joe Ide Adds More Breathless Action to the Mix in ‘Wrecked’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But inhabitants of the world of the hard-right are surrounded by danger – from mobs of thugs at home to a variety of powerful and deadly enemies abroad. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Kunis plays a young Russian woman with the unlikely name of Jupiter Jones, whose father, an astrophysicist, was killed by thugs when she was an infant. "Jupiter Ascending": Wachowskis in Outer Space 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z A neighboring community of thugs poses some slight menace, but without crime or crisis, “The Arrest” is the sort of cruelty-free dystopia you might pick up at Whole Foods. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z And how did said black hatter manage to deploy a team of dozens of heavy weapons-weilding hardened thugs to dog our heroes' every move? ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A cruise ship passenger gets robbed at gunpoint by thugs in the Bahamas, raising the important question: How safe are you while on vacation? Cruise Ship Port Call: Gauging Crime on the Bahamas 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z We are at a political rally, the leader making his entrance through the audience like a boxer flanked by a phalanx of thugs. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The other side of the law is populated, as usual, by colorful thugs with rougher faces and thicker accents. Review: In ‘Black Mass,’ Johnny Depp Is the Dead-Eyed Killer Whitey Bulger 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Maybe these sleekly dressed thugs in fascist fetish-gear aren't so different from the rich collectors who buy from commercial galleries nowadays. Jake or Dinos Chapman - review 2011-07-14T15:05:56Z In response, Mr. Tucker commented, “Good. Get rid of these thugs and I don’t care where you send them. They are a Pox on our society.” Opera Foundation Removes Trustee Over Offensive Comments 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z "We didn't want an archetypal thug, but a man who bordered on the personification of evil." Cop drama tries not to be uniform 2012-08-30T09:33:06Z He is, according to the Omaha Police, an example of “the thug cycle continuing.” Swearing toddler video inspires terrible, racist response 2014-01-09T20:49:00Z As the manager of West Ham, he behaves as a bully and a thug. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 1 Recap: Can the Center Hold? 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Sometimes she even manages to look vulnerable while giving some thug a whupping. Review: In ‘Blindspot,’ an Amnesiac’s Tattoos Are the Clues 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z At a high school as apparently large as McKinley, is it really possible that Kurt's only prospect as a gay lover or even a gay friend is the self-loathing thug Karofsky? Kurt and Blaine finally kiss on "Glee" -- but so what? 2011-03-16T13:17:00Z The thick thug Jock, played brilliantly by Paul Bettany, has become an irresistible ladies' man. Character Mortdecai has much in common with creator Kyril Bonfiglioli 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z He often spoke of “dear old Adolf” and his SS, who knew what to do with thugs who picked on artists. The Odd Factual Gaps in Michael Grandage’s “Genius” 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Now the actual mobsters who are all over television are showing that most of these crime lords are just thugs. Critic’s Notebook: ‘In the Big House,’ ‘Mob Wives’ and ‘Mobster Confessions’ 2012-07-22T20:18:23Z Over the next hour, as the music played from a CD, the 48 dancers portrayed a romance set in a royal undersea court and a magical forest, with nobles, handmaidens and thugs. Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean Kingdom? at City Ballet 2011-09-11T04:00:07Z Stories of underdogs doing battle with thugs are commonplace in literature, especially in children’s literature. The Enduring Appeal of “The Pushcart War” 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z He was confronted with and outnumbered by armed thugs, whose body language and voices were aggressive. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 10: We’ve Done Worse 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Including, say, populating your movie with dark-skinned thugs with funny accents and killing a few of them for cheap laughs. Review: She’s Still a Mess, but ‘Snatched’ Is No ‘Trainwreck’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Askew went on to play the thug Automatic Slim in the 1977 action film “Rolling Thunder” and a sheriff in the 2001 horror movie “Frailty.” Luke Askew, Character Actor, Is Dead at 80 2012-04-13T04:35:36Z When the peasants cannot pay, these thugs confiscate their pigs and chickens, rice and seeds, the very possessions needed to sustain their lives, then bulldoze their houses into piles of bricks and dust. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z From the moment we meet Mando, he appears to be defending a gentle, helpless guy in a bar from thugs. "The Witcher" and "The Mandalorian," heroes of the gig economy 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z In "The Wizard" he constructs a nightmare of invasion when the flimsy walls of his and Sally's manufactured home are assaulted by local thugs. Bill Hader gives "Barry" his made-for-TV movie hero wish 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z "And they would talk about thugs and drug dealers and gangbangers. Those are the cultural associations people bring to the table when they talk about these dogs." The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z “They violated international laws with impunity. They sometimes moved through Texas towns like a rampaging gang of thugs.” The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z This is the sort of drama where even the thugs serve up disquisitions on Tiananmen Square and the historical uses of power along with their beat downs. Review: ‘Devs’ Is a Cold and Beautiful Machine 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z To pass the time, they turn to the fake thug’s iPhone for music, and up comes George Michael’s “Freedom! ’ George Michael Mattered Beyond the Music 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Whether in descriptions of men falling through the English skies from burning zeppelins or thugs marching a trouserless Jewish lawyer through the streets of Frankfurt, Germany, Behrens’s prose thrills to the indelible and the irrevocable. ‘Carry Me’ review: Life and love in harrowing wartime Europe spring to life 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The real George Hearst was a hard case and a ruthless businessman, but there is no evidence that he commanded thugs to murder his enemies. Before the profane delights of "Deadwood," silver-tongued "Tombstone" rode in 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr Skarbek’s analysis confounds the assumption that prisons are stuffed with violent, racist thugs who act irrationally. Protection rackets 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z I played thug characters, but with this character, even though I play a thug somewhat, he’s really a guy going through a transition.” With New Film, Ja Rule Looks Ahead After Prison 2013-10-02T15:58:35Z Mr. Sizemore could be intense, charismatic and manic in roles as soldiers, thugs, cops, killers and, in a television movie, the baseball player Pete Rose. Tom Sizemore, Intense Actor With a Troubled Life, Dies at 61 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z His opportunity comes when he rescues the son of a wealthy family from a thug. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z This guy started as a street thug, and now he’s a worldwide celebrity. Boardwalk Empire Boss Terence Winter on the Fate of Nucky Thompson 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z “Well, welcome to ‘Negro Night’ here at the Washington Hilton, or as Fox News will report, ‘Two thugs disrupt elegant dinner in D.C.’ “Your hair is so white, it tried to punch me at a Trump rally”: 10 best lines from Larry Wilmore’s scathing White House Correspondents’ Dinner monologue 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Eames points out one of Cobol Engineering’s thugs, watching from the bar. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z He begins as a violent alpha male in a group of macho thugs and turns into just another one of a group of desperate trekkers. Readers' Reviews 2011-01-06T23:15:00Z Alton Sterling will be called a “thug” by conservatives and the right-wing media. A modern day lynching: Why I will not watch the video of Alton Sterling being killed by Baton Rouge police 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z If you need a thug shot, a vampire killed or a yeti tamed, he seems like the man to call. Review: ‘Six Rounds of Vengeance,’ in Vegas, No Actual Boxers Necessary 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z “The dominant frame is, ‘There’s terrible violence, and it’s generated by people who are irresponsible’ – maybe they’re ‘thugs,’ as the mayor said in an unguarded moment. “It’s a ritual of reassurance”: Fox News, Wolf Blitzer, “thugs” and Baltimore’s sorry media spectacle 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Still, the families are further aligned when, shortly after the Mayerses move in, two thugs invade the Lodge home. Review: Glib Laughs and Race Hate in ‘Suburbicon’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Still dressed in their Texas Republican fundraiser finery, they are taken captive and the Yakanomo thugs tie them up to wait for sunrise. RECAP: Sunrise, Sunset and Everything in Between on True Blood 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z However, he became sickened by the spectacle of power-mad thugs triumphantly holding up by the hair the severed heads of the guillotined aristocrats, to the cheers of ravening crowds of bloodthirsty yeehaws with bad teeth. Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The extremists in "Timbuktu" are thugs much in the vein of the vicious bandits in Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic "The Seven Samurai." 'Timbuktu' director Abderrahmane Sissako shines a light on extremism 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z For his movies, McDonagh has broadened the thematic focus from quarreling relatives to working stiffs — thugs, that is, whose business is to turn suspects into stiffs — who form their own kind of dysfunctional family. Seven Psychopaths: Smart, Violent, Crazy Fun 2012-10-11T12:00:26Z He told me that following the march he had hidden at a post office and watched as right-wing thugs chased a group of participants back and forth across a busy road. A Weekend of Russian Pride 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Morris' terrorists, though, pretty much act as one-dimensional thugs. Met Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' is a compassionate feat 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z A secretive woman with a frightening temper, Suzy is now married to Sonny, a sociopathic Vietnamese thug in Las Vegas. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Not a schoolyard thug shaking him down for lunch money, but a high-ranking executive in one of the largest financial institutions in the country. Dharun Ravi says he’s sorry 2012-05-30T15:30:00Z In response, in 1931 he was beaten by Fascist thugs outside the opera house in Bologna, and his passport was taken from him. A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z It is painful even today to imagine some thug, rich and yes, literally entitled, coming in and attacking a girl in chains. What Joan of Arc would have known about #MeToo 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z The story begins in earnest when a trio of thugs invade Luke’s home, kill his parents and carry him off to the dark destination of the novel’s title. Review | Stephen King’s ‘The Institute’ turns our political moment into gripping horror 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z And yes, Maggie looks pretty good in a red crocheted bathing suit, lounging by a pool until it's finally time to break a thug's neck with her bare hands. Best new fall TV: "Nikita" 2010-09-04T23:01:00Z He convincingly played a small-time crook and vicious thug in Noel Clarke's 2008 movie Adulthood and, arguably risking typecasting, was a small-time crook and vicious thug in the following year's Michael Caine vehicle Harry Brown. Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life' 2010-12-16T22:29:00Z Which is how one of Shakespeare’s young thugs, somebody like Mercutio, might have described Trump’s hair. The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Unsure if they are evil thugs or the avenging angels Depression-era popular culture made them out to be, Weldon is haunted by the encounter. Burke fashions epic story in ‘Wayfaring Stranger’ 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Their attitude was that of thugs taking what did not belong to them and the man was clearly defending what belonged to him. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 10: We’ve Done Worse 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z His transition from a frightened naïf to a beefed-up thug seems too abrupt, but perhaps that’s a failure of perception on the viewer’s part. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 5: Seeing Naz in a New Light 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z The inference, quite simply, was that Julian Acox was a “thug” and that Merlin Herrald was nothing more than a “victim.” “Would we even be here if Julian Acox was white?” Race, self-defense and making of a murder charge 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z There’s a sense that the rioting is a kind of postcolonial invasion for at least this one thug, an idea that’s cemented when later he says, “We took the city.” Movie Review: ‘The Inbetweeners,’ Directed by Ben Palmer 2012-09-06T22:55:29Z Often described as waiflike, she is constantly reducing thugs to a bloody mess. Noticed: The New Power of Petite Women 2010-06-25T21:44:00Z She spends the rest of the movie in Paris, battling a couple dozen of Jang’s thugs and trying to cope with or accept her potent, poignant new condition. REVIEW: I Love Lucy — and Luc, and Scarlett 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z The kids are not "ghetto thugs,"she said. Festival of Books: How art helps kids transcend their tough realities 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Dyer, as the surly top thug, and Mr. Freeman, as his fretful second banana, enjoyably elicit the music-hall rhythms of these squabbling criminals, without milking the laughs. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Nominated for a Bafta, the film explores a family in crisis when a father must defend his son against the thugs that beat him up. Clip joint: British shorts 2013-02-07T16:11:03Z Actually Eichmann was a thug as well as a bureaucrat, who screamed at Jews: "Pig, stand against the wall when you address me." Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z He went from street thug to top gangster to respected businessman to revered civic pillar, which I believe is unmatched in the history of American criminal justice. An Unusual Gangster: Doug J. Swanson Talks About Benny Binion 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Like “The Caretaker,” “Orphans” is a tale of two brothers — one a vicious thug and one with developmental problems — and an older man who winds up in the siblings’ squalid digs. Theater Review: ‘Orphans,’ With Alec Baldwin, at the Schoenfeld Theater 2013-04-19T02:00:01Z The structure — felonious dad copes with stress of work and family; complications ensue — owed an obvious debt to “The Sopranos,” and the collision of regular people and colorfully violent thugs nodded to Tarantino. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z February 1995 — Right-wing England thugs tear up seats and attack local fans at Dublin’s Lansdowne Road, forcing the friendly game against Ireland to be abandoned after 27 minutes. List of English Hooliganism incidents 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z The film also won veteran Hong Kong actor Lau Ching Wan the best actor's award for his portrayal of a triad thug seeking to recover money lost in a loan shark scheme. China's 'Beijing Blues' wins at Taiwan film fest 2012-11-24T15:55:10Z They discuss the brain-exploding box seen being dug up by the gang of thugs in the cold open, and it's revealed that Newton was the one who hired them in the first place. "Fringe" recap: What's in the box(es)? 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z Do you think it’s clear he wants Raylan as a trophy and that it’s also clear there is nothing Raylan likes to shoot more than gun thugs? 'Justified' Recap: Raylan and Boyd, Hanging at a Pizza Party 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z When Leonard complains about the thugs — who have a habit of leaving bags of flaming feces on his doorstep — Harry recommends the do-nothing course of action. Harry Brown: A Gran Torino That Drives on the Left 2010-04-29T20:55:00Z Police Commissioner William Bratton says he meant his comments about "thugs who call themselves rap artists" and "shoot up crowded clubs." The Latest: Bratton says comments not about all in hip hop 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The film, set on the final day of his life, suggests that the killers were homophobic street thugs and not, as the police concluded, a lone hustler he had picked up that night. At New York Film Festival, History and Detectives 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The comments drew condemnation from many, including the English literary critic Terry Eagleton, who called them “stomach-churning” and said they resembled those of “a British National Party thug.” Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z The faux-Confederate thug, who looks more than ever like Droopy Dog crossed with Bradley Cooper, becomes an emotional wreck and it turns out he’s totally subordinate to his conniving wife. Preacher recap: season one, episode five – South Will Rise Again 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Parting shots • The Drug Enforcement Administration side of the episode follows the question for feline justice after Escobar’s thugs killed Murphy’s cat as an intimidation tactic. 'Narcos' Episode 3 Recap: Pablo the Politician 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The gangsters and thugs who inhabit the building won’t go down without a fight, or several of them. ArtsBeat: Behind the Action of 'The Raid: Redemption' 2012-03-22T16:43:20Z Again, instead of pretending she's not home, or making up some excuse to get rid of him, she just lets him into her apartment, even though she's just stashed the thug's body in her bathroom. "Fringe" recap: What's in the box(es)? 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z Samuel discovers the attempted murder just in time to save Sartet, but the next day two thugs break into Samuel’s house, beat him unconscious and take Nadia. | 'Point Blank': It?s Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police 2011-07-28T22:30:10Z Based on a gritty black-and-white indie comic by artist James O'Barr, the film revolves around a rock musician who is murdered while trying to save his fiancée from thugs. Bradley Cooper in talks to star in "Crow" remake 2011-04-13T00:48:47Z Punctuated by stately funerals and chaotic melees, “New World” is as elegant and impassive as its suit-wearing thugs. ‘New World’: a cold, stylish South Korean gangster drama 2013-03-21T20:26:34Z There was one scene in which Jack O'Connell, playing an apparently fearless street thug, was forced to strip naked in front of Allen's local top villain, thus exposing his sheer terror. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z Meanwhile, the third thug from the cold open has spotted Alt-livia and apparently plans to follow her. "Fringe" recap: What's in the box(es)? 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z In October 2015, the female opposition-party official in Uganda was headed to a political rally when she was taken from her car by government thugs, dragged through the street and stripped naked to the waist. Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z With his “aura of utter and total self-reliance in the teeth of the world,” Officer Park seems like a thug with a badge. A novelist’s soul-searching rewind to the 1999 eruption on Seattle’s streets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z It has thugs conducting business in nightclubs where it is hard to hear what the other thugs are saying but they conduct business anyway. Joe Queenan's guide to crime cliches 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z All of these elements combine in one extraordinary sequence, during which Milton manages to gun down about a dozen Lucifer-loving, farm-implement-wielding thugs, while smoking a cigar and taking slugs from a bottle of whiskey. | 'Drive Angry': On a Mission, but Not From God 2011-02-26T00:37:42Z While Thompson escaped the fury of the thugs, Garrison was captured and paraded through the streets with a noose around his neck. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z But it never feels like medicinal social realism, because the clock is ticking and Ree's got to find her no-account dad somewhere in this world of terrifying and dangerous backwoods thugs. "Winter's Bone": American film of the year? 2010-06-12T23:01:00Z For a movie about ragged, trash-talking thugs, "Goon" is surprisingly sweet. 15 top entertainment picks for May 27-June 2, 2012 2012-05-23T21:44:04Z Essentially at the end of Season 1, there’s two thugs that talk about $11 million — and opposed to seeing that as a threat, Marius sees that as an opportunity. Giovanni Ribisi Has Been Conned. So Have You. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The story switches to a black man, once a special agent for the old regime but now grasping for a new life, watching his young son being killed by thugs. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z But if a black teen had written a similar post, he likely would have been deemed a “thug.” America’s racial double standard: White celebs are excused, but black stars are “thugs” 2014-01-24T16:16:00Z He quotes Sean O’Mahony, who once published fan magazines for both bands, saying, “The Beatles were thugs who were put across as nice blokes, and the Rolling Stones were gentlemen who were made into thugs.” ‘Beatles vs. Stones’: Which side are you on? 2013-12-13T21:49:48Z Unquestioned and uninterrupted, this black-garbed thug regales us with 20 years’ worth of kidnapping, torture and cold-blooded murder, all the while scribbling compulsively in a large notebook. | 'El Sicario, Room 164 ': ?El Sicario, Room 164,? by Gianfranco Rosi ? Review 2011-12-27T23:52:09Z She beats up a bicycle with a metal pole as if she were a thug punishing a snitch. Art Review: Altfest, Barlow, Dean, Djurberg and Liden at New Museum 2012-06-07T22:17:35Z Happily, Mikey seems a very substandard sort of thug, tending to report back that he rang the bell but Paul wasn't in and what should he do now, please? Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2013-05-28T16:41:37Z And somehow, this dopey, mass-murdering thug and the actor playing him stand out as being far more endearingly earnest than anybody else. Theater Review: Woody Allen Transforms His ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ 2014-04-11T02:00:16Z A raw personal account, it captures the violence of the security forces and thugs who controlled much of downtown Cairo outside Tahrir Square. Arab Spring films revive days of Egypt, Tunisia revolt 2011-12-13T12:53:22Z When dirty thugs fight whites, they lead this country to the coroner; I’ll end this racial dissonance by banning every foreigner. Style Invitational: Put it in Bee-verse — write a spelling-word poem 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z What are the Proud Boys if not a roving gang of Project Mayhem thugs? Fight Club at 20: the prescience and power of David Fincher's drama 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z As they filed through Statuary Hall, some of Trump’s thugs snapped selfies of themselves, as if they were merely tourists. Perspective | The Capitol mob images shouldn’t surprise you. Open insurrection was always where we were headed. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z On Friday filmmaker Alexander Payne told the Press Association that Weinstein was a “bully and a thug” who was “asking for” his downfall. Harvey Weinstein: Oscars academy holds emergency meeting 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Such has been the misrule of Iran by the theocratic thugs that overthrew him in 1979, however, that some Iranians regard their former royalty with nostalgia. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-09-21T07:00:00Z I once graded a paper by an older Black student who argued that all the new rappers are dangerous, trigger-happy thugs –– that is a racist idea. Ibram X Kendi responds to Sen. Ted Cruz 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The unassuming Home Mart guy suddenly turns out to be an efficient slicer and dicer of Russian thugs. Denzel Washington sharpens tools to exact justice in 'Equalizer' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z In just about every episode, Eddie is jumped by dangerous thugs. Your next box set: Shoestring 2012-06-28T15:45:01Z He raises his fist in victory as he sings, "Darren Wilson never indicted/ Mike Brown just a stupid thug." In 2014, hip hop takes a potent stand 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Oppressed Becomes Oppressor To his critics in the West, Robert Mugabe, president of the politically and economically troubled Zimbabwe, is a tyrant, an election rigger, a thug who uses past victimhood to justify further oppression. Theater Review: ‘Breakfast With Mugabe,’ by Fraser Grace 2013-08-26T21:13:53Z To drive this point home one of the women they dash in to rescue is shown actually getting her crotch grabbed by a thug before the Mayans arrive to save her. Smart Watch: The notorious “RBG” comes to CNN and more top TV picks for the week 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “The Cut” saves its serious condemnation for sharp-dressing thugs with ill-gotten money and too much time to indulge themselves. Books of The Times: ?The Cut? by George Pelecanos - Review 2011-08-28T21:41:49Z When his newspaper is forced to close, and thugs burn down his house, he’s pretty well convinced that the situation is not optimal. ‘Happiest People in the World’: Just a madcap comic satire about Islamofascism 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z What about the old stereotype of black men playing criminals and thugs? Oscars reward actors of color when they play stereotypes: “They were not the same kinds of roles that a non-minority would have” 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z For him, as James Sallis writes in a vivid introduction, “the world is a giant marketplace in which gangs of thugs – be they leftist, reactionary, terrorist, police, or politicians – compete relentlessly.” Jean-Patrick Manchette's 'neo-polar' noir 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z It also has a villain fresh from the Royal Shakespeare Company, a thug from the Bolshoi Ballet and a hero who carries with him the smirks and wisecracks that helped make ‘Moonlighting’ a television hit. 10 Classic Christmas Movies That Our Critics Didn’t See Coming 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Godwin reports that Mr. Gandanga was kidnapped by thugs he believes were members of President Mugabe’s spying agency, lashed with whips made from tire rubber and kicked in the face. Books of The Times: Where Dissidents Are the Prey, and Horror Is a Weapon 2011-05-23T18:30:27Z The book's title character is a London thug who wins the national lottery and becomes a tabloid darling. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Martin Amis Discusses 'Lionel Asbo' 2012-08-17T16:45:41Z He makes McGill's transition from sweet teen to vicious thug appear as natural as the onset of adolescence. Conor McCarron: 'I'd gladly audition for a comedy role' 2010-12-26T00:05:08Z Harry enters peeking from behind the curtains in his upstairs apartment, watching the world, or at least his little corner of it, go to hell, courtesy of a gang of young thugs. | 'Harry Brown': Michael Caine as Gangster-Shooting Vigilante 2010-04-29T23:04:00Z The only surprise ending in one of these conspiracy tales would be if the ultimate villain were some proletarian thug. The Girl Who Played With Fire: Moony Over Noomi 2010-07-11T07:55:00Z In the climactic scene, the Burnett home becomes the site of a home invasion led by two bogus teenage thugs. | 'The Family Tree': ?The Family Tree? Directed by Vivi Friedman - Review 2011-08-25T22:43:48Z Even his thugs observe personal codes of honor; like their classic role models, these tough guys don’t dance. Solving Crimes the Old-Fashioned Way 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Worst case, he’s abusive; best case, insensitive thug. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Invasive questions? Tell him it’s none of his business. No lie. 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Not to worry about such things as arming murderous thugs; the money is great, and they can go on living the life of the half-crazy danger junkie. 'Outlaws Inc.': fueling the black-market pipeline 2011-10-12T21:59:09Z The one promising debut was that of The Act of Killing, whose directors convinced Indonesian thugs who had committed state-sponsored murders to reenact their crimes in the style of their favorite violent movies. Conjure This: Low-Buget Horror Film Scares Off Pricey Tentpoles 2013-07-21T20:29:33Z They had to keep silent as the defense suggested that David and his friends were “thugs” killed by Dunn in self-defense. In '3 1/2 Minutes,' an eerie prefiguring of the Charleston shootings 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z When the media would half-heartedly question Osborne about these “thugs,” he’d talk about how he was able to see the good in flawed men. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z Avery Brooks played Robert Urich’s sidekick Hawk, who was always interesting, because he was a thug but he had an intellectual bent. Creating “Luke Cage,” the First Woke Black-Superhero Show 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z “People think we’re thugs, but it’s like ‘No, bro, I’m really a regular person, and this is what I like doing.’” Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z “If I were to do the things Trump’s doing, I would be called a common thug,” he said. T.I. Says if He Did What Trump's Doing, 'I Would Be Called a Thug' 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z |
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