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In Hitler's own day, Churchill called him a "guttersniper"; Brecht parodied him in the character of Arturo Ui, a buffoonish thug implausibly thrust into power; and Neville Chamberlain--well, enough said about Mr. Chamberlain.
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But the paper carries this rejoinder from an ACLU staffer: "The Constitution has never been found to protect extortion: someone saying they'll break your windows every day or someone stationing a thug outside your business."
The thug with the fuck-you sneer depicted in Richard (1969), a magnified mug shot hanging to her right, could be the guy she's just caught sight of.
But--here's where the in-group stuff kicks in-- Nancy is the late artist Nancy Graves, and the thug is Richard Serra, whom she married in 1965.