Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point many people would reject the movie as another element in a familiar series of unyielding exhortations by doctrinaire Marxists. That the film is more than mere polemics, however, is apparent from the opening scene, in which we are confronted by a slow-motion close-up of a brutal beating by vicious grunting thugs wielding chains and pipes. The violence, excerpted from a later sequence in the movie, immediately propels us into the career of Roberto Barrera, a national union leader who makes himself the subject of a mock kidnapping so as to elicit worker sympathy for himself...
Though not correct, it was precisely the impression Stratton was trying to convey in the photos. Having endured the most brutal kind of physical torture as well as 18 months in solitary, he acted doped, hoping the world would understand that his statement was coerced even if it misunderstood the method of coercion. The seemingly pitiable spectacle he made of himself was thus actually an extraordinarily effective act of resistance by a brave...
...recollection of army days, turns the fraternal joyfulness of army reminiscences into a horrible realization of what the military represents. In two show-stopping soliloquies, Lucy Brown's "Barbara Song" and Jenny Diver's "Solomon Song," the two women show that succumbing to sentimental attachment means ruin in the brutal milieu in which they live...
Although Kissinger promised to help, the Kalbs say, he did not want to offend the Arabs or the Russians, and he spent the rest of the week in a sometimes delicate, often brutal balancing act in Washington while the fighting proceeded. Kissinger is depicted as constantly goading Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and the Pentagon to arrange to send supplies to Israel and implying to Dinitz that he was fighting Israel's battles in the U.S. bureaucracy...
Mere Mortals. Nixon's once much feared palace guard emerges as more petty than sinister. Magruder describes how Haldeman once gave his young aide Larry Higby a brutal dressing-down for failing to provide a golf cart to take him 200 yds. across the presidential compound at San Clemente. Haldeman loved to make his far-flung assistants jump by activating their Pageboy beepers, especially when traveling in Air Force One: "[Nixon] and Haldeman and Chapin and the others in the traveling entourage would get up there, 30,000 ft. above the earth, and something would happen to them...