But longtime friends and associates said his hard exterior was rooted in his days growing up in a rough-and-tumble section of Boston, where his father drove a cab.
A tumbling section in which men leap and twist through stacked hoops is updated via hip-hop music and more casual, urban gear for the performers, instead of the sparkly spandex get-ups they mostly favor.
BEIJING — They are often tucked away in the rough-and-tumble sections of the city's south side, hidden beneath dingy hotels and guarded by men in dark coats.
An excerpt from one of Andrew's stories from Beijing in 2009: They are often tucked away in the rough-and-tumble sections of the city's south side, hidden beneath dingy hotels and guarded by men in dark coats.
I GREW up in the rough-and-tumble Morrisania section of the East Bronx.
The street where the party took place borders Newark's rough-and-tumble Vailsburg section, where there are gangs to the north and south, said Leon Drinks, 54, who lives a few doors down from the house where the shooting took place.
The best ones here tumble out of the section on the economy.
A ragout of baby vegetables (baby pattypan squash, carrots, pearl onions and shiitakes) tumbled down from a section of roasted butternut squash into a steaming mound of amaranth.
After the recent controversy over the Eric Fischl sculpture Tumbling Woman, the City section asked readers to nominate a work of public art they would like to see consigned to the dustbin.
Other sections tumbled west, crushing the Marriott World Trade Hotel, and still others shot northwest, toward Battery Park City's Winter Garden.
In "Ghost Light," O'Connor allows himself to ride the wave of Irish eloquence, adopting in the Wicklow section (where "a tumbled thatchless cottage... has bog cotton growing in its rafters") a jagged lyricism redolent of Seamus Heaney.
