Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This intrusion of a messy, brutal reality into the realm of art lends this book its stunning force. To use the words of one character, the story "floats...off the page, defying the cramped letters that frame it, spilling out into life." Few 25-year-olds demonstrate Peck's intimacy with the painful facts of death and loss, and fewer can write about them with this much grace and power. Martin and John gives evidence of a prodigious, promising talent...
Ellcock was homeless himself until four years ago and recalls sleeping in unlocked cars and on heat grates in order to escape the cold. "A couple of times I almost froze, got frostbite. It was real brutal, real hard...
HUMONGOUS GENERALIZATION OF the week: Hollywood movies are masculine; foreign and independent films are feminine. Most Hollywood efforts -- the action movies, comedies, domestic thrillers -- come at you like a teenage boy in heat, working hard to dazzle with energy and patter when they are not being brutal and obscene. What you often end up sitting through is two hours of guys gunning their engines. John Sayles' film Passion Fish has a line about this tendency. When the heroine is told that a suitor might take her for a ride in his refurbished boat, she notes wryly, "Men like that...
...dismaying truth. The new figures, however, are so bad as to call into question whether Clinton can cut the deficit at all, as he still insists he will. Doing so might require not just shelving his cherished middle-class tax cut but also enacting actual tax increases and brutal cuts in some spending programs. And those could work at cross-purposes to his program to "grow the economy" by increasing investment -- which entails new spending...
...stick of wood in a box of matches, then spends the rest of its 70 minutes on the transformation of Iris (Kati Outinen), the stolid young woman on the assembly line, into a keg of emotional dynamite. Kaurismaki's almost-silent movie features a cast of rats -- mother, stepfather, brutal beau -- for whom rat poison may be the best antidote. And for U.S. viewers, Match Factory is a splendid introduction to a world-class (no joke) filmmaker, with a wit as dry as kindling...