Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie has its moments-a night stampede along a cliff, several brutal fights and killings, and a long, tense stalking sequence, with rifles, in a pitch-dark canyon. It also has more than its quota of good performances, notably by Wally Cassell, Donald Crisp, Don DeFore, Lloyd Bridges. Best of all, it is finely set and photographed (by Allan O'Dea and Russell Harlan) and carefully directed (by Miss Lake's husband, Andre de Toth...
...Bughousers. In every mental institution where Maine was later caged-private, state and veterans' (before Veterans Administrator Omar Bradley's regime)-he found attendants almost uniformly brutal and degraded. As one patient observed, they were mostly "yeggs, fruits, hopheads, ex-convicts . . . drunks, common thieves." They specialized in beating and choking patients without leaving telltale bruises. One whom Maine met "had a theory that all violent insanity was connected with the lower colon," and treated it with enemas. And attendants (who call themselves "bughousers") are responsible for at least 90% of the "treatment" given to patients in most mental...
Half the world accused Mussolini of having instigated the brutal murder. For appearance sake, Mussolini had Dumini and four accomplices put on trial. Dumini got off with two months in jail. Last January, 23 years later, he was put on trial again by the re-established Italian Republic. He took the stand in Rome's Court of Assizes, looking as jaundiced as the walls with their ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound...
...decided to stick it out with her two-year-old son and her British husband, who was North Borneo's Director of Agriculture. Three Came Home is Mrs. Keith's blow-by-blow account of 3½ years in Jap prison camps-an ugly, brutal story, quietly and sometimes humorously told...
...brutal power politics nature of the whole situation is obscured by the stark and undeniable facts that Greece stands desperately in need of foreign aid. Despite the efforts of UNRRA, millions of Greeks are starving today. Thanks to the inefficiency of the government, Greece has no income tax, no rationing, and no price controls. The violent fighting between the rightist X-ites and the leftist EAM, if allowed to break out into full-scale civil war would mean the final tragedy for a whole people, whose heroism in the war against the Axis is excelled by no other. Interference...