Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three days of brutal fighting, the war between Greek Cypriots and Turkish troops who invaded Cyprus by sea and air tapered off last week into a fitful ceasefire. Blue-helmeted United Nations soldiers, who frequently came under fire in the course of the fighting and suffered at least twelve Canadian wounded, finally managed to pry the two sides apart. In a decisive move, 500 United Nations soldiers, at the direction of Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, occupied the strategic Nicosia airport. The U.N. action denied the airport's runways to Greeks who had been using them...
...plans just before the opening and immediately got an injunction to stop the performance. Ruling the show could go on, a three-judge panel reinstated the rape and ordered the sepia-skinned Kaufmann to wear a wig of Caucasian hair. Lang was disappointed. "Kowalski is not a brutal proletarian helping to destroy an old traditional civilization," he said, "I see him as a democratizing force...
...hour counseling to rape victims brought to emergency rooms. Generally a woman is encouraged to talk openly about her experience. Counselors also provide follow-up psychological treatment for women who have persistent fears and nightmares. Says one girl who recently went through the experience: "Rape is a terribly, terribly brutal and degrading thing. You have to talk about it to someone afterward, and you have to keep working on yourself in order to recover...
Persona and Pierrot Le Fou are being cofeatured at the Brattle starting tomorrow; both are wonderful, though sometimes brutal, works, highly recommended for the artsy crowd. Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman and staring Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson, is a complex psychological drama that's somewhat of a modern classic. Pierrot Le Fou, directed by Godard and starring Belmondo, is another heady film about psychic anguish, and as always, Belmondo is a joy to watch...
...became an accomplished practitioner of crowd manipulation?staging mass demonstrations ?and propaganda. To gain control of the courts and universities, he fired judges and teachers suspected of favoring the political opposition. He harassed and imprisoned his opponents and abolished press freedom. His dictatorial techniques, while less brutal and bloody, were reminiscent of his fascist heroes...