Word: brutalization
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Recently, it could be said, similar acclaim has emerged for writers from former Eastern European bloc countries. Names such as Kundera, Pavic, and Kadare have become more familiar to Western ears, and are strangely reminiscent of Latin American novels in their depictions of brutal political repression and the concurrent intellectual resistance. Although they draw upon strong and diverse national literary traditions, writers such Ismail Kadare can be considered part of a distinctively Eastern European group of writers finally gaining the international recognition they deserve...
Unsurprisingly, Riefenstahl refuses to see this Wonderful Horrible Life. "I cried, and they filmed it," she says. "He was brutal." But perhaps this woman whose best hours were spent looking at film could look at this one. It adapts her supple camera style and keen editing eye to an amazing subject. It could be the last great Leni Riefenstahl film...
...back at the forces that struck Americans virtually guarantees that the wrong lesson will be learned. The world's other mischief-makers will have no fear, says Kissinger, until the U.S. reduces Aidid's "power base so that it's apparent that when you tackle the U.S. in the brutal way in which it has been done, there is a penalty...
...studio, he adapted his celebrated 1986 staging of Porgy for England's Glyndebourne Festival, reassembling most of his Glyndebourne cast of black American singers. He vividly evokes the opera's Catfish Row in swirling crowd scenes intercut with sharply detailed close-ups, in smokily languorous tableaus that erupt into brutal fights and sensual embraces. Instead of letting the performers sing, however, he has them lip-synch to a sound track of their own cast recording, issued by EMI Classics with Simon Rattle + conducting the London Philharmonic. It's a vibrant recording in its own right, but the miming shows...
...brutal game," said Locker, following Harvard's 3-0 loss to New Hampshire yesterday in Durham, N.H. "I've looked at the last three games, and the team with the most fouls has won...I'm real frustrated about that...