Word: brutality
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...entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens of thousands of strikes that have helped shape labor law and define the compact between worker and boss. Many strikes have been bitter. Some have been brutal: 18 steelworkers were killed during a 3 1/2-month strike...
Quite a different sort of film made by Lancaster's company was the brilliantly brutal Sweet Smell of Success. Lancaster's J.J. Hunsecker, a Walter Winchell-type Broadway columnist with horn-rimmed glasses and an accountant's haircut, gets relatively little screen time; yet he dominates the cynical scenario as surely as Dracula does any vampire movie. Lancaster knew he needn't raise his voice to exude pestilence. There is capital punishment in his whisper, "You're dead, son. Get yourself buried...
Sainte Colombe's life is one of supreme sobriety where his only pleasure comes from exploring the boundaries of his grief. At times he can be a wickedly brutal father as when he locks his daughters in a cellar. Yet his daughters see their father as a hero making their relationship seem all the more Freudian. One touching moment comes when Sainte Colombe and his two daughters are giving a recital and Madeline, the oldest girl, eagerly tries to make her father smile while he maintains his mask-like grimace. As a patriarch, teacher and companion, Marielle's Sainte Colombe...
Other characters also represent the formation, mutation and loss of identity. Adam Feldman plays the deliciously crazy General Bloody Five, who in addition to being infamously brutal also becomes insatiably horny whenever it rains. Feldman's cartoon-like raving is terrifying and funny; he captures all the extremities of Bloody Five's moods, including his bewilderment as his grip on reality slips further and further away. A complement to Bloody Five's hysteria is the cool and calculating Widow saloon, who handles Bloody Five with nerves of steel and a hunger for money. Catherine Steindley's portrayal of Begbick...
Three South African blacks who killed Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright Scholar, were given sentences of 18 years in prison, avoiding the death penalty. The judge said that the killers could be rehabilitated even though they haven't shown remorse for the brutal, racially-motivated slaying, which took place last August outside Cape Town...