Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brutal Buffets...
...That review of Serenade [April 2] in which Mario Lanza appears is brutal. I got a laugh out of it, but a man must have a thick hide to be able to take such blows and keep any kind of self-assurance; a deep-seated inferiority complex must be at the bottom of all Lanza's troubles, and your verbal buffeting does not help. M. L. OLNEY San Francisco...
...hectoring of his retired-general father, the most cursory student of Medic can predict what is coming-the compulsive lying to cover up innocent misdemeanors, the bad time at public school, where a senior prefect spoils him and thereby earns him the hostility of the whole school and a brutal beating, the intense Jewish girl whose love drives him to deeds of derring-do that secretly terrify him, his eventual marriage to a rich, oversexed woman who keeps him as a pet. Thence to despair and the dock...
From the lips of Venezuelan travelers to Trinidad, Costa Rica, Mexico and the U.S. last week came bits and pieces of the story behind what censored news cables have lately called "student disturbances" in Venezuela. The "disturbances" shaped up as a brutal police attack that killed a 17-year-old girl who was her school's "student queen" and wounded children as young as twelve...
Stewart Granger. Either way the buffalo end up dead, but the fine distinction enables Producer Dore Schary to appear moralistic rather than brutal as he records the gory slaughter of bison in South Dakota's Custer State Park, where the actual killing was done by park sharpshooters in their annual thinning of the herd...