Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's the same sense of confinement in Martin Scorsese's brilliant new Mean Streets--the stifling air, the discipline that allows the filmaker a paradoxical liberation. Living with the streetcorner Mafia in New York's Little Italy, Mean Streets' desperation is more brutal, more pulsing and more immediate. People in Lucas' world scurry because a change is about to come; in Scorsese's vision the sky is going to fall...
...more blatant actions of overt destruction executed by the redneck cop, ill-educated soldier, ice-cold corporation-leader. Different in temper, intellectual dispassion and self-exile of this kind is nonetheless the same in faithful service of an unjust social order. Less explicit in form, it is no less brutal in its operation. Covered with ivy and pronounced with low-key, understated intonations, it is no less final in its ultimate exactions...
...crimes in Indochina were so brutal and monstrous that there is probably not enough compassion and courage in America to ever come to terms with them. The destruction and the killing in the Middle East in the past three weeks has been terrible, but that kind of warfare was waged in Indochina for ten long years...
CORNELL-YALE--The Big Red is still smarting from the slapping around Harvard gave Cornell last week. Yale clobbered a pathetic Columbia squad. Should be a match between two brutal ground attacks, for Cornell has the better defense and a quarterback named Allen. Cornell 28, Yale...
PERHAPS ONE OF the most curious parts of the week's news coverage was the media's failure to play up the brutal attack of a black schoolgirl by a gang of white youths wielding baseball bats and rubber hoses. The failure to adequately report this and several other incidents involving white attackers brought charges of racist reporting. The Progressive Labor Party dramatized their notion of a "conspiracy to stir up racial violence" by taking over The Boston Globe's advertising office and demanding that the Globe print a PLP statement denouncing the coverage...