Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Velvet Revolution" was Nicolau Ceaucescu, ex-autocrat of Romania. By 'major', the longtime existence of a self-created cult of personality is implied. Construction teams never finished the huge residential complex that Ceaucescu had commissioned towards his own greater glory. His and his wife's brutal totalitarianism ended with a hail of bullets and mutilation of their corpses...
Despite his astonishing displays of excess, there seems to be a kind of brutal calculus behind the madness. "If I behave like the good-natured intellectual I really am," Zhirinovsky told TIME editors last week, "I won't get votes. It's war out there, and I'm out to win." Yet the loud applause that greets his vision is no longer confined to the fringes of the Russian nationalist movement. After a stunning success last December when his Liberal Democratic Party won 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, dealing a major blow to Yeltsin...
...horror has always been with us, a persistent secret, silent and pernicious, intimate and brutal. Now, however, as a result of the Simpson drama, Americans are confronting the ferocious violence that may erupt when love runs awry. Women who have clung to destructive relationships for years are realizing, like Dana, that they may be in dire jeopardy. Last week phone calls to domestic-violence hot lines surged to record numbers; many battered women suddenly found the strength to quit their homes and seek sanctuary in shelters. Although it has been two years since the American Medical Association reported that...
...rape Laura while Will bounces off the walls of the stall. Shot in slow motion, director Mike Nichols turns this struggle into an animalistic fight with Laura being thrown on the ground, scratched and hit and eventually thrown up against one of the walls of the barn. It's brutal. It's frightening. And anyone who has a hard time watching intense sexual violence (i.e. this reviewer), should beware. In the end, Will rips off his protective medallion and jumps over the bars of the stall. He and Stewart leap and struggle with lots of blood and gore...
...been as ugly as any in history. At least 85% of the 200,000 killed in three years of fighting have been civilians. An additional 4 million have become refugees, most of them driven from their homes in pogroms of "ethnic cleansing." Survivors tell of concentration camps, brutal guards, starvation rations, killing grounds, mass graves. They remember a sadist called the Butcher, the killer gang known as the Jokers. They have witnessed summary executions, decapitations, human beings being thrown on bonfires. Some still hear the moans of raped women, the shrieks of terrified children, the howls of men under torture...