Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a tale would have power, even if clumsily told; but here it is narrated with control, economy, taste. Director Bernhard Wicki simply sets the brutal facts in a clear light, lets the audience look at them, makes only one laconic comment: "The events in this story happened in 1945. Two days later the warm Europe ended...
...Bless America." Still, in the second look, Castro's surprising military strength and brutal police-state repression had alerted Latin America as no Yankee warnings could. In Argentina and Uruguay, anti-Castro rallies were almost as numerous as the more publicized mobs yowling "Cuba Si-Yanki No." In the depressed northern Brazil town of Caruarú, hundreds of students, singing "God bless America, land that I love" in bad but valiant English, broke up a Communist rally with rotten eggs, mushy fruit, firecrackers and fists. In their public and private statements, government officials showed chill concern over the four...
...universal, ancient, and wholly modern; its major buildings are orchestrations of pillars and brises soleil, of soaring archways and intertwining ramps, of random openings and tense façades that dance like notes on a musical score. They are princely and crude at the same time-both beautiful and brutal...
Beer is known to have had advance information about the Sinai campaign and, presumably, the coordinated Franco-British attack on Suez, which he allegedly passed on to the Soviet Union. The Russians, clearly, did not inform the Egyptians. They seem to have used their foreknowledge to behave with brutal swiftness in crushing the Hungarian rebellion, confident that the Suez attack would be certain to divert world public opinion...
...Arthur hollers it, this is a call to revolution. But Arthur is the natural (as opposed to the political) revolutionary. He is the man in love with life, the Nietzschean yeasayer who devours all ex perience, even the experience of a brutal beating, and finds it nourishing. Author Sillitoe has recognized and unforgettably defined a type. Actor Finney, under the keen direction of Karel Reisz, a gifted maker of documentary movies, embodies the type with remarkable vigor and exact ness. Finney's strongest asset as an actor is his presence, an inward weight that holds the center of every...