Word: roughneck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much a goofball as a radical innocent trying to pick up the clues to the preppie lifestyle but at the same time remaining fiercely loyal to his family and friends back home. It's a touching quality, and the actor engagingly lives it. Ditto Baldwin as his roughneck father, who has a depressive's shrewdness about other people's weaknesses as well as a depressive's inability to do anything about his own life, which consists mainly of railing at his children and playing poker with his boozy cronies...
...chocolate, "since almost every two-bit organ or tissue wants a bite out of it." Men deficient in estrogen aren't more manly; they're more prone to such diseases as osteoporosis. Women produce testosterone, and may even need it for sexual arousal. But despite its reputation as the roughneck's Power Bar, scientists can find no clear-cut relationship between testosterone levels and aggressiveness. Angier reports that men's testosterone levels actually drop before certain challenges like parachuting or, to judge from Saving Private Ryan, landing at Normandy. So whatever the molecular motives of estrogen and testosterone, sorting hospital...
Damon writes himself as the studly Will Hunting, a cocky roughneck from South Boston. Will knows he's a looker--he spends his days swaggering around town, drinking and palling around with buddies and getting into fights for no other reason than boredom. Is it a surprise then to find out that Will is also a secret genius? He quotes ancient property laws to get out of arraignments, rattles off knowledge of historiography in order to impress girls and even finishes brain-numbing equations left on the school blackboards...
...wise-ass roughneck from a broken home--his mother was a seven-times-married alcoholic--whose teen years were, to say the least, troubled. He was into drinks and drugs, worked days at the local Hormel meat-packing plant and fitfully attended night school. He did some stand-up at the Student Union while attending the University of Iowa and after two years dropped out to pursue a career in comedy...
...such trader is Leonid, a lanky, unshaven roughneck who formerly belonged to an elite unit of the Soviet army. After leaving the military in the late 1980s, Leonid spent several years repairing apartments and fixing toilets, until he started brokering Russian-made wine in front of the Kiev railway station. When he was pushed out by a group of gypsies who controlled the wine trade, Leonid turned to imported cigarettes. Since then, he has branched out; one week he may move a consignment of flashlight batteries, the next a shipment of government-issue boots, obtained from a corrupt policeman...