Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Millionaire of the Week: For his brutal beating at the hands of Los Angeles cops, a jury awarded Rodney King $3,816,535.45 -- and maybe a sense of closure
...caning has been roundly decried as brutal and inhumane. Amnesty international, which has long condemned corporal punishment. describes whipping as a form of torture. The Washington Post, the New York Times and many on other publications reporting on the case have taken pains to describe the whipping process in all too excruciating detail; the prisoner is tied to a post, bare except for pads protecting his groin and kidneys, and whipped by a martial arts expert, The first blow breaks the skin and may send the prisoner into the shock. The rest are sure to leave permanent scars and magnify...
Typically, these groups don't provide any better alternatives. Indeed, prison--the mode of punishment they accept--may be the more brutal alternative...
Across the board -- and the ocean -- skirts were mostly very short. One wonders where designers spent the brutal winter just past as they designed their collections for the coming fall. (Not only were skirts scanty, but there were also plenty of bare midriffs.) Of course, the micromini phenomenon is partly phony, since clothes are shipped to stores at longer, more freeze- friendly proportions. Nonetheless, if one house shows short, others apparently feel obliged to be just as daring. Never mind that mass-market stores like the Gap are selling thousands of midcalf dresses every week. A micromini with fancy tights...
...done in such a brutal way that's whatsparked the strike," Hyland says...