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Every expressive shape or shiny streak in a coat and suit bore the dread suggestion of effeminacy, connoting both a lack of integrity and an unbridled vanity felt to be unavoidable in women, but criminal, even thuggish, in men.
Suge, too, imitated mob style, valuing loyalty and insularity over all, surrounding himself with thuggish cronies.
Peter Fonda's comeback--as a stoic beekeeper facing down his convict son's thuggish friends--is called his first worthy performance since Easy Rider (1969).
But there is something to the argument that his cavalier attitude about individual rights helped to create an atmosphere in which thuggish members of his administration could regard invasions of privacy very lightly.
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.