Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIKEWISE, Indian, the better and more serious piece, runs amuck. Arnold has failed to see that Horovitz was not writing just a sharp TV script about the brutal terrorization of a non-English speaking alien lost in New York. Rather, this play is foremost a work about communication. Joey and Murph, the two violent toughs, are as lost as the Indian. They find themselves in a world where their mothers are whores, love has no relevance to them, and nothing makes any sense. They must step on a helpless creature, if only to prove to themselves that they are alive...
Late of an autumn afternoon, when the day's brutal business is done, Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes likes to tilt back in his chair and worry-not about pass patterns or blocking assignments, but "about civilization," especially the lack of appreciation for him and his teams. Hayes, who last fielded a nationally acclaimed team in 1961, is all too familiar with fan fickleness. "When you come out of that stadium an hour and a half after a game," he says, "and there is no one there to congratulate you, it gets pretty lonely. You love it when...
...fact, that every single American boy has at one time rolled up the sleeves of his teeshirt to look studlier as he walked downtown; that every chick has snuck up her hems in junior high school so somebody can take a good peek. America! You dumb ass stupid brutal beast! Why did you abandon us? We loved you, we really did, we might even fight in your stupid wars if you hadn't forbidden Elvis. Why didn't you let us have friends with greasy hair? Why? Why couldn't we go meet our friends at the drive...
...With brutal abandon, the front-running New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders fought point for point all afternoon. Then, with 65 seconds remaining, the Jets slipped ahead 32-29. But the Raiders struck back swiftly, connecting on a 22-yd. pass play that put them within scoring range. Now there were only 50 seconds left in the game. The Oakland stadium erupted like Mauna Loa. Twenty-one million at-home fans climbed into their TV sets. And then-NBC abruptly cut away to Heidi, a two-hour dramatization of the children's classic. It was a clear case...
Take Marcus Pendleton, the hero. He is, to be brutal about it, a fat slob. As Ustinov plays him, he slobbers, mumbles, stutters and swaggers. He is the kind of man who seems to have dandruff on his teeth. While the plot calls for Pendleton to pose as a computer expert and hitch up with an IBM-type operation to embezzle it out of millions, you know as soon as you see him that he'll be caught in the act. As a result, the fun is not in his attempted theft, but in what he does during his spare...