Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Authors Collins and Lapierre, whose first collaboration was the bestselling Is Paris Burning?, make prime melodrama out of El Cordobés' story, and they are frequently informative about the brutal, corrupt realities beneath bullfighting's cloak of romanticism. But the problem with their cinematic technique is that while it requires only a grainy black-and-white script, they give it a glossy, Technicolor treatment. Every irony is underlined, every climax hammered home, every scene overstuffed with authentic touches from their well-stocked notebooks. The result, paradoxically, is that their finished product is rarely as vivid and compelling...
...degrees and savage beatings have been largely done away with since the '30s, but a New Jersey grand jury was ordered last week to investigate charges that Paterson police used unnecessary force in quelling recent disturbances in Puerto Rican neighborhoods. Without question, New York City police used extreme, sometimes brutal tactics against students during spring demonstrations at Columbia University. "As far as police practice is concerned," says Stanford Social Scientist Richard Blum, "the U.S. has to be considered an un derdeveloped country...
...those critics, it seems inconceivable that the clues could not have been recognized. Everyone in Germany knew that the German Jews were being rounded up and herded away in a brutal fashion. German civilian firms supplied the ovens and other equipment for the camps. By 1943, Germans were widely cautioning one another not to complain about the Nazi regime, because otherwise "you might go up in smoke." Adolf Hitler, in fact, told the German people: "The end of the war will see the end of the Jewish race." On the other hand, it must be remembered the six extermination camps...
...appears to give much thought to revolt," writes François Nourissier in The French, which obviously went to press too soon. "Our young people are not brutal or rebellious or vicious or despairing or drugged or headed for extremist adventures. Indifferent? Yes. Nihilistic? No." Events since May seem to have proved Nourissier wrong, but curiously enough, they have in no way invalidated this splendidly instructive book. With affection and impeccable style, Novelist Nourissier (Une Histoire Française) shows his countrymen to be a gifted, cantankerous and immensely vital people, whose only predictable quality is their very unpredictability...
...Supreme Court rarely rebukes individual attorneys. But last year its unanimous, 9-to-0 reversal of the 1956 murder conviction of Cabdriver Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr. carried a blunt reprimand. Miller had been accused of the brutal rape-murder of an eight-year-old girl near Canton, Ill., and the high court was convinced that he did not get a fair trial. It charged Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey and his special assistant, Roger Hayes, with deliberately misrepresenting evidence by repeatedly waving a "bloodstained" pair of men's shorts before the jury. "In the context of the revolting crime...