Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know L.A. Confidential has ended when it is both daytime and not raining. In a fine version of the somewhat beefy Ellroy crime novel ostensibly about a strange murder, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in '50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale. Could this...
...official said it was the most brutal attack he'd ever seen in 30 years of coaching," Halushka said...
...hole wasn't big enough, Harvard was dealt another setback seconds into the second stanza. Junior Craig Adams, who had scored at least one goal in the Crimson's previous three games, took a brutal hit into the boards. The impact knocked his helmet to the ice and a mild concussion, 10 stitches to the forehead and a tender shoulder forced Adams to sit out the rest of the tournament...
...Intel's competitors. If Grove is tough on people inside Intel, he is brutal with competition. Intel's current victims are Advanced Micro Devices and National Semiconductor, but no single firm poses much of a threat. Intel, says AMD CEO Jerry Sanders, makes it nearly impossible to get access to the big customers--Compaq, Dell, Gateway--that make for economies of scale. "That's where Intel makes it tough," says Sanders, another Fairchild alum. "In my view Intel goes right to the edge--and sometimes over it--to exclude people from providing chips to those guys...
...brutal honesty, real-life experiences and the rich wisdom of rusticated neighbors don't appeal to you, you will not like rural America. THOMAS E. LOONEY Crossville, Tenn...