Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around together. Some blood is spilled on these occasions, so a sex- and-violence equivalency is established. There is also a bondage subtext that climaxes with Jack handcuffed to a bed and Mona in dominatrix black leather. Possibly writer Hilary Henkin sees Mona as a woman empowered by a brutal feminism. Possibly director Peter Medak, who specializes in Eurotrash artiness, sees the film as an upscale gloss on the gangster genre. Everyone else will observe that in structure and intent it is soft-core porn and, since it is written by a woman, something for Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon...
...suitably accoutered, Mei Yang seduces the wife of Kuen (Kent Chung), a brutal silk merchant. Humiliated, Kuen leaves the town and becomes a gardener in the house where Yuk Heung languishes. Mei Yang is taken in by a pair of lesbian cousins with a penchant for flutes, food and S&M. Engaged in Blakean excess, Mei Yang is unaware that, perhaps to justify the "Zen" in the title, a day of reckoning awaits...
...Police brutality is such a common factor ofour society it's never surprising when ithappens," Zinn says. "I am never surprised when Ihear that police have ruffed somebody up or havebeen brutal to somebody...it happens much moreoften then we hear about...
...hospitals in 1991. Three-quarters of the infants tested positive for drugs at birth. They had no relatives, only nurses; no world beyond the ward. Some stayed in the hospitals so long they learned to walk there. Most were doomed to an early entry into America's brutal foster-care system, and in the meantime each baby's maintenance cost...
...bodyguard of U.S. figure-skating champion Tonya Harding and two other men were arrested for the brutal assault on Harding's rival Nancy Kerrigan in Detroit. According to his lawyer, bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt told investigators that he had taken part in the plot to injure Kerrigan but denied being "smart enough" to plan...