Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colors -- bright, sensuous, all enveloping -- tell the story of a young Chinese woman, her brutal husband and her timid lover. Fate enshrouds them, as it has Zhang Yimou's beautiful film: Ju Dou has never played publicly in China, and the authorities tried unsuccessfully to rescind its Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film...
Critics of Los Angeles' Chief Gates charged that such a pattern does exist on his 8,300-member force. The day Thornburgh announced his investigation, 1,000 angry Angelenos at a police-commission hearing denounced Gates as the embodiment of a brutal, racist police department and demanded that he step down. Some in the crowd chanted, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Daryl Gates...
Race was a persistent subtext of the controversy. "We don't know how much racism was involved," says Jerome H. Skolnick, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, "but I believe that racist police are more likely to be brutal and brutal police are more likely to be racist." When black people see a police car in Los Angeles, says state assemblyman Curtis Tucker, "they don't know whether justice will be meted out or whether judge, jury and executioner is pulling...
When Bridget Kerrigan pinned up her flag in her dorm room window two weeks ago, she perhaps did not anticipate that so many Harvard students would associate her flag with centuries of brutal lynchings and dehumanization. That the flag is the symbol of choice for the Ku Klux Klan, and a symbol which few southern Blacks can embrace with pride, may have escaped her and the others currently displaying the flag. But now that so many students have clearly delineated this for Kerrigan and the others, how can they be unaware of what their continued display of the Confederate flag...
...austere thriller with one lingering mystery: Why was it shelved? Did the old husband -- brutal, impotent, self-deluding -- offer the Chinese rulers a disturbing mirror image of themselves? Did Ju Dou's child -- twisted, ruthless, utterly inhuman -- remind the authorities uncomfortably of the '60s Red Guard? Maybe the film was deemed too sexy for Chinese viewers. Though not much flesh is exposed, Ju Dou is a powerful essay on sexual longing, grounded in time-honored dramatic elements: fire, water, pain and lust...