Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racist and brutal police behavior that we find objectionable and reprehensive is typified by police officers like Burns, Hallice, DeLuca, McCarthy, Boyle, Loder, and Hussey. These officers should be removed from the city payroll for cause...
Basically, The Longest Yard is a cynical, often brutal, crudely stated movie that blends two seemingly unmixable genres-the slice of sadistic prison life and the equally ancient tale of an underdog football team conquering impossible odds to win the Big Game...
...Allende government almost exactly one year ago now rules Chile with an iron fist. Thousands were killed in the aftermath of the coup, and uncounted political prisoners languish in cramped cells, where they are tortured until they "confess." The extensive slums on the edges of Santiago are subject to brutal purges by government troops. The press and other media are rigorously censored, and military leader Gen. Augustus Pinochet says that it may be decades before Chile is "ready" for democracy...
...when an Islander is accused of committing a brutal crime--one was charged with a homosexual assault last winter that resulted in serious injuries--Islanders are incredulous. They refused to believe the tidbits that trickled from the police, and they attacked publication of the testimony as they watched one of their own embarrassed. They couldn't believe an Islander would do such things, and even if he had, the intrusion of the off-Island system of justice seemed unwarranted. It should have been worked out among neighbors. They are all friends there, and that makes things different...
...presumed fait accompli faltered as Radcliffe alumnae came to the defense of their alma mater. And Harvard die-hards came forward to reiterate the rudiments of their long-standing skepticism regarding merger. Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, subtly summed it all up: "The most brutal formulation of the problem of merger might mean achieving sexual diversity at the expense of other kinds of diversity...