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...serve as a convenient privacy shield when he's squinting into a monitor. The film's hair stylist does look dangerously over-worked. Besides Mane's mop, she's also got to groom Faerch, who wears a 70s shag, and conceal Danny Trejo's ponytail, as he acts against thuggish type as a sensitive, short-haired security guard. "I'm super nitpicky about wigs," Zombie admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Set with Rob Zombie | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Russians will remember Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, for overseeing the economic reforms that reduced many of them to penury and for the geopolitical surrender that - briefly - rendered an erstwhile superpower irrelevant to global events. They will remember his thuggish treatment of political enemies and the brutal folly of his war in Chechnya; and they will remember the whiff of corruption over his inner circle and his bargain-basement sale of the Russian state's most lucrative economic assets to a cabal of oligarchs in exchange for their funding of his reelection in 1996. Indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Yeltsin: The Man Atop the Tank | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...live in an era that is defined by extremes. For example, how do we live in a world that contains both the sublime musical experience of “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” by Bone Thugs ‘N Harmony and, on the other side, repugnant trash like “You’re Beautiful” by that ugly English man whose name I actually forget because he sounds like 1800 other ugly English men with strangled falsettos? Western culture is so extreme! I, for one, have always championed the stalwart Protestant notions of moderation...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pants, Minds Wide Open | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imus Fallout: Who Can Say What? | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...hour-long documentary reveals that these artists’ thuggish and culturally damaging personas are largely acts. Skeptical? Even tough-guy Fat Joe wonders why rappers feel the need to act “hard...

Author: By Allison M. Keeley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scene and Heard: the Remix | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

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