The red carpet runs up the steps of the Palais, bathed in sunlight, patrolled by goons, and overlooked by the milling crowds down on the Croisette.
A man in a St George's Cross bikini goons around in the stands as Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen grin from ear to ear after England seal victory to retain the urn before going on to record their first overseas Ashes series win in 24 years.
The misbehaving new SNP MPs, branded "goons" by Gerald Kaufman, have been making me giggle.
Speaking of which, I've always thought that Batman hired Robin simply to draw fire: throwing a teenage boy a bright yellow cape and telling him to run through a darkened warehouse full of goons.
In March three people died in a bomb explosion victims of pro-project goons, say the villagers.
In Mr Davenport's formulation, violence "sets in motion a process that can result in their removal .The first risk for despots is that a crackdown may flop: troops and goons cannot or will not always enact emergency laws or obey orders to shoot.
Soon after Mr Lukashenka's goons cracked down on protesters following a stolen presidential election in December, the 24-year-old activist fled the country, winding up in Krakow, Poland.
Lee Kum-ryong, a defector who works for Free North Korea Radio, says that when he visited the offices of North Korean businessmen in Beijing after Mr Jang's fall, he was met only by Mr Kim's goons, come to "arrest" them; the staff had already fled.
To help nervous postal workers say no, post-office managers will be sent on courses run by local public-safety commissions on how to resist intimidation from goons.
At least 37 people were killed in the polls, mostly in fighting between the goons of rival political parties, including those within the Left Front coalition that has ruled the state since 1977.
As prime minister until 1998, he made Slovakia a pariah in western eyes, and a paradise for goons and gangsters.
