Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Curtal's illegitimate son, an angry young man who is writing his father's biography and comes to probe the old antagonism. Curtal died, his son tells Stanhope, by laughing himself into a fatal hemorrhage while mimicking Stanhope's mandarin manner. The son's brutal questions lead Stanhope back into a past as dangerous as a minefield, where every step triggers explosive insights and revelations. By the final pages. Stanhope has progressed from prig to pitiful human. As his own life ebbs, he slowly realizes that Curtal's death had lost him not a hated...
...guard pedaled out of Milan om the start of one of bike racing's toughest and richest events: the $72,000 Giro d'Italia, a 21-day marathon that winds 2,608 miles around the Italian peninsula and traverses 6000-ft.-high mountain passes in a brutal test of stamina as well as speed. Last week, with seven legs completed and 14 to go, Van Looy suffered from stomach and leg cramps. But he was within striking distance of the leaders in the 130-man field, and experts, predicting fast, heavy runs by the champion, rated...
...outdone, the Chronicle bannered a drugstore robbery in Armageddon-size type: NEW S.F. VIOLENCE, BRUTAL BEATINGS. "The wave of violent crimes on San Francisco streets," wrote the Chronicle, basing its conclusion on a single felony in which two men suffered minor injuries, "rolled on last night, and police continued to press their beefed-up counter-campaign." The Chronicle started an April Aaron Fund; the News-Call Bulletin offered $500 for her attacker's arrest. The Examiner, scrabbling frantically for new crime-wave evidence, picked up a police-blotter report about a purse-snatching sailor and triumphantly blew it onto...
Rightly or wrongly, the transplanted whites from Algeria are identified with the plastic bombings and brutal murders of the S.A.O. The average Frenchman also dislikes them on personal grounds. The Algerian accent, which combines a throaty Arab intonation with a nasal drawl, falls unpleasantly on French ears. The pieds-noirs are considered pushy, noisy, boastful and vulgar. A Nice restaurateur says: "You cannot spend ten minutes with them before the subject of their sexual prowess comes up. Their language and gestures are so raw that it's not surprising that no one, from high society to workers, invites pieds...
...Sica in Two Women-hair blowing in her eyes, dressed sexlessly in threadbare clothes, pouting, cursing, writing chapters in the air with her hands. She plays a ferociously protective mother who is helpless to prevent her daughter's rape by Moroccan soldiers. It is a brutal but honest film...