Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be easy to view this 17-month old's rape as an isolated incident, with few implications beyond the horrifying scope of child abuse. Most of us will undoubtedly forget about this child's rape as we have forgotten about the brutal rape of an octogenarian grandmother last year in New York. I also want to forget. I want to forget the faces of my female peers who blame themselves after being "date raped," who would rather suffer the psychological and emotional consequences than be put on trial. But I can't forget the puffed eyes, or the anguished...
When Lorenzo Carcaterra published Sleepers last year, he said his book--about brutal child abuse in a New York reform school in the 1960s and the long-delayed but satisfying revenge four of the victims gain on their tormentors--was a true and, indeed, autobiographical tale. His story, however, did not check out to the satisfaction of investigating journalists, who could find no hard evidence to support his claim. The author's defense was that he had changed names and details to protect his pals...
...Dole into a frenzied new round of Hollywood bashing. The shows share the same premise: a central character brings down Hannibal Lecter-type psychopaths by using an uncanny gift to see inside the criminal mind, literally envisioning the evildoers' motivations. In the process both series serve up images unusually brutal for prime-time TV: severed heads, bodies crackling in flames, victims buried alive, near naked women beaten and stabbed to death...
...music was in some way causing people to hate him, he stopped composing and tried to avoid the spotlight. He had planned to lay low in L.A. but, instead, ended up doing the one thing in this celebrity-crazed country that, short of a lengthy trial for the brutal slaying of an ex-wife and her companion, would most guarantee that the media glare would find him: he started dating a cast member of the hit NBC comedy Friends. And the cast member Duritz took up with was, arguably, the hottest on the show, or at least the one with...
There are too few shots like that. What's worse is that in some places this show seems to ask us to sympathize with Goldin's subjects instead of consider what she made of them. The real catastrophes of recent years--AIDS, drug deaths, brutal dealings between men and women--have produced a sentimental climate in some parts of the art world. That's the mood in Ross Bleckner's oil-paint gloamings and in the mournful photo assemblages of Mike and Douglas Starn. And it's in the scarlet wallpaper of Goldin's empty hotel rooms and her graveyard...