Word: brutality
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...most cases, it takes more than great hair. (Dr. K is the one, glorious exception.) Start with the essential winter coat. Finding the perfect winter jacket can take a lifetime of devoted shopping. However, the brutal Iowa winters of Dr. K's youth have taught her well--she never feels cold or looks bulky. The trick is to layer like a farm girl. When looking for the ultimate winter coat, try to resist the allure of poofy Michelin Man jackets and other high-tech numbers. Instead, bust out with several strata of cozy natural fibers...
...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 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...
...there where he met his toughest challenge to date--Adam Marchetti. In a brutal three set match in which Tom continually battled his injured foot, the elder Blake eventually prevailed with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 victory...
Clinton opened the debate when he told a questioner there had been "profound disagreements" over human rights. Jiang stoked it when he said he had no regrets over the brutal suppression of freedom demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989, a "political disturbance" that had "seriously disrupted social stability and jeopardized state security." The Chinese government simply "had to take necessary measures, according to law." Clinton jumped back in, saying, "I think it should be obvious to everyone that we have a very different view of the meaning of events at Tiananmen Square." Beijing's attitude on dissent has kept...
Essentially, however, it's business as usual in Starship Troopers. Basic training is still brutal. The platoon we follow from the first day of enlistment to battlefield apotheosis contains many familiar types--supermacho drill sergeant, dopey yokel and, at its center, Johnny (Casper Van Dien, a newcomer with a useful, uncanny resemblance to the old B-picture star John Agar), who is the traditional spoiled and aimless kid. He has--need one say?--joined up for the wrong, selfish reasons, but when his hometown is destroyed, Pearl Harbor-style, he embraces the right, vengeful-idealistic rationales for merciless slaughter...