Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brutal, yes. But illegal sexual harassment? Even after the Supreme Court's ruling, Oncale might not convince a jury that Sundowner and its men discriminated against him. Scalia's brief opinion merely allows the possibility for the first time. Sundowner attorney Harry Reasoner says his clients deny the shower incident. They admit to roughhousing with Oncale, but they didn't single him out for special abuse, Reasoner says. "All males who go onto an offshore platform are subject to a kind of hazing." Reasoner also points out that Oncale could have brought state assault charges against the men but went...
...know L.A. Confidential has ended when it is both daytime and not raining. In a fine version of the somewhat beefy Ellroy crime novel ostensibly about a strange murder, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in '50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russel Crow turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale. Could this...
...impact on the war. According to accounts that suddenly appeared on TV and in the world press last week, a company of 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning and destroyed houses, livestock and all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal operation that took less than 20 minutes. When it was over, the Vietnamese dead totaled at least 100 men, women and children, and perhaps many more. Only 25 or so escaped, because they lay hidden under the fallen bodies of their relatives and neighbors. Military men concede that stories of what...
...insane," said Franklin Jones. His sister, he said, had been dashing toward literary stardom "until she met him." And so it seemed. In 1975, the 25-year-old Gayl stunned the literary world with Corregidora, a fiercely written novel about incest, slavery and abuse. Jones mined the same brutal field in Eva's Man, in which the protagonist bites off a man's penis. Toni Morrison was her editor; John Updike praised her work. Another book followed. And at just 26, she was tenured at the University of Michigan. But after she arrived at the university, Gayl got involved with...
...souls of the Taiwanese people like the word "Holocaust" is in the history of the Jewish people. On that day, a woman in Taipei, Taiwan, was arrested and beaten to death for selling cigarettes without a license. This sparked island-wide protests that soon resulted in the brutal massacre of more than 20,000 Taiwanese at the hands of the Chinese Nationalist troops. These innocent people were murdered solely because they peacefully protested against the repressive and corrupt rule of the Chinese Nationalist government, which had taken control of Taiwan two years earlier (after World War II). In addition...