Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will also be popular abroad. The rest of the world can scarcely be expected to leap to the aid of a nation whose brutal treatment of Angola is an international scandal. With Portugal's repression in mind, no decent person will step forward to say what is, after all, the truth: that Goa is not Angola...
...shooting started after a week of growing tension. The brutal beatings of Acting U.N. Katanga Chief George Ivan Smith and Special Adviser Brian Urquhart (TIME, Dec. 8) had already left the U.N. soldiers tense, angry, and spoiling for a fight. Many of Tshombe's troops, whipped up by the strident anti-U.N. propaganda of Radio Katanga, were drinking heavily and walking through town with guns at the ready. Something had to happen; it did, one afternoon at the main airport. When brawling Katangese soldiers molested airport workers, Indian soldiers arrested 32 of them in a flurry of gunfire...
Accused at one time or another of being a dirty business, a brutal business, a corrupter of honest politicians, and a perverter of young men's morals, professional boxing has always managed to survive. But it might not survive being a bore. That's what it was last week...
...quality of the performance fluctuated curiously. At times, in the "Lullaby," for instance, the piano overpowered the flute. Yet in the roaring "Intermezzo," Miss Chamberlain, much as she may have tried, could not be sufficiently brutal...
...What's more, Director Billy Wilder makes his attitude stick like Schlagobers slung in the spectator's kisser. He purposely neglects the high precision of hilarity that made Some Like It Hot a screwball classic and The Apartment a peerless comedy of officemanship. But in the rapid, brutal, whambam style of a man swatting flies with a pile driver, he has produced a sometimes beWildered, often wonderfully funny exercise in nonstop nuttiness...