Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brutal and mangy as it is, the movie still works. It is an adept and forceful B picture, deriving much of its energy from its own streamlined sleaziness and from the skills of its two stars, Elliott Gould and Robert Blake. Both of them have a kind of sour, dehydrated charm that is nicely used by Director-Writer Hyams, whose most notable previous effort was the screenplay for the noxious T.R. Baskin. Gould and Blake play a couple of L.A. vice cops who are offhandedly conscientious about their work and cynical about its results. Their superiors, ever mindful of valuable...
...this story the sexuality which runs close to the surface of the whole book becomes suddenly brutal: one of these "baby chicks" is forced and hurt. Afterwards "her life look to be disgusting like a squashed fish, so what she did: she made up some power somehow and raise herself up that windowsill and hook herself onto it and then what I see, she just topple herself...
...believer in second guessing (yeah, sure kid!), but when I struggled out of bed on Sunday morning after an evening of serious boozing to discover that my worst fears had come true, that the swimming team had lost to Princeton in the Easterns, I was tempted to do some brutal fourth, fifth, and even sixth guessing...
...return to a curriculum where departments teach their courses will allow the departments to "do anything they want and teach a brutal bunch of shit," the student said...
...take hold of America. Those facets of his life which would upset a hero's image stand too close to the surface to be abstracted into a legend. For example, he lives as a millionaire in Switzerland. He calls for the revival of the Russian Orthodox church, a brutal arm of czarist oppression before 1917. He branded former Attorney General Ramsey Clark a "fluttering butterfly" for ignoring Russian dissidents, but visiting POW camps in Hanoi. Solzhenitsyn is among the most conservative of the Soviet dissidents, and in an age where people call for detente, his protests ring with Cold...