Word: brutalities
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PERU. President Alberto Fujimori is credited with knocking the wind out of the brutal Shining Path insurgency by capturing or killing its leadership, but 1,692 people were killed in guerrilla and counterinsurgency violence last year. Terrorism caused $1 billion worth of damage...
Eventually, the Jews are moved from the Krakow Ghetto to a Nazi labor camp run by Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes). Goeth is a singularly unsettling figure, educated and refined but at the same time brutal, merciless and animalistic. Looking down into the camp from his villa, Goeth casually shoots anyone who crosses his line of sight. He is in love with his Jewish maid (Embeth Davidtz), but he is ashamed of it, and so he beats...
...million Ukrainians by Stalin's bureaucrats in 1932-33. Not many Americans will see this picture, which opened last week in one New York City theater; stark, iconic, black-and- white Ukrainian movies, especially when their subject is "the hidden Holocaust," have limited mall appeal. But in its meticulously brutal imagery, in its theme of humanity enslaved and justice outraged, in its Manichaean categorizing of people as holy victims or soulless villains, Famine-33 has important similarities to Hollywood-financed pictures coming this Christmas to a 'plex near...
...most vicious play of the game came after the final buzzer, when a UMD goon almost took the head off freshman Stuart Swenson (a St. Cloud, Minn. native) with a brutal slash. Swenson had finished a hard check before the final buzzer, but was luckily able to escape without an injury...
Such antics are also a reminder that Americans and Canadians are separated by more than a 5,527-mile border. The sniping is aimed at Canada's attempts to halt local dissemination of U.S. press reports about one of the most shocking sets of murders in Canadian history: the brutal torture and slaughter of two teenage girls allegedly by an attractive, seemingly perfect young couple. To ensure a fair trial for defendant Paul Teale, 29, who is also charged with 50 sexual assaults, a Canadian court has banned detailed reporting on the murder cases and on the earlier trial...