Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with near impunity, practicing fraud and extortion, conducting illegal trade, bribing and corrupting officials and viciously murdering anyone who gets in their way. When Listyev, a popular television host and businessman, was shot down two weeks ago in what police said was a paid-for assassination, it was another brutal killing in a series of shootings, car bombings, kidnappings and gangland battles that have overwhelmed post-Soviet Moscow...
...would go see the film--it seemed like something meant more to promote white middle class prejudice than to call for change. But Tamahori, who is himself descended in part from the Maori, took the gamble and won. Maori have not only been willing to see this blunt and brutal portrait of themselves, it has been Maori, over whelmingly, who have made Tamahori's debut film the best selling film in New Zealand history, surpassing even "The Piano" and "Jurassic Park" at the box office...
...politicized music, there is little room in No Disrespect for human frailty and indecision in her vision of herself. Souljah touches self-consciously on many of the social, political and psychological issues that keep Oprah and Ricky on top in the ratings. She is brutal and exacting in her account of man-sharing; forgiving and indulgent of the friend who collects abortion money from her stable of men to fund a shopping spree; passionate in her love of Nathan, her "strong Black man," but callous in her dismissal of him when imperfection challenges his masculinity. Souljah is overly political, impassioned...
Dumb, exhausting, hurtful, hideous--at one time or another, the people seeking the White House in 1996 have used such words to describe the brutal process to which they have given over the next 20 months of their lives. By the time it's over, the polls will again discover a collective disenchantment, and many will wonder if there isn't a better way. Well there may be, but not this time. Two centuries ago, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the nation's new system of governance assured that choosing a President would rest on the candidates' "requisite qualifications" rather than...
...question persists: Is the rest of America ready for him? He is an effective, if often brutal, campaigner. In his race against Democrat Lloyd Doggett for the U.S. Senate in 1984, Gramm repeatedly attacked his opponent for receiving an unsolicited donation from a gay group. "He pounded and pounded at that, and it took us out of the race," says Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who worked in Doggett's campaign. "I would describe him as vicious and ruthless." But Gramm will need more than a simple instinct for the jugular to win in 1996. Though he has rejected any attempts...