Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reaching the end of their food supplies, since relief flights were suspended on Dec. 1. But few are keen to accept the offer of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to guarantee safe passage to all civilians leaving the city -- an all too facile and cynical turnabout after eight brutal months of Serb barrage...
Barnes is frank about the brutal realities of living as a novelist in England. "It is difficult to make a living as a novelist in Britain, until one is about forty. The Donna Tartt scenario would be impossible in Britain. The ascent there is slower than it is here in America where a novelist, having achieved some measure of success changes his hair, his house, his wife, his entire life while in Britain, a successful novelist considers taking his publicist to lunch." He admires the work of Cheever and Updike but resolutely adheres to his ambitious (if brashly stated) mission...
THEY ARE A STRANGE QUARTET: THE sensitive IRA gunman (Stephen Rea) and his brutal blond colleague (Miranda Richardson); the gentle English soldier they take hostage (Forest Whitaker) and the love he left behind (comely newcomer Jaye Davidson). In THE CRYING GAME, Irish writer-director Neil Jordan spins his had-I-but-known plot twists from Belfast to London. By the end of this devious thriller, just about everyone has had to point a loaded gun at just about anyone else he or she might have cared for. In a style of agitated naturalism, Jordan (Mona Lisa) examines poignant matters...
EVEN WITHOUT A VIDEOTAPE, THE BLOOD AND THE brain matter that stained a Detroit street provided a brutal picture, evoking memories of the infamous Rodney King beating. But unlike L.A., Detroit has remained calm as local police, the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI investigate the killing of Malice Green by police on Nov. 5. Green was stopped by two white cops, who then allegedly beat him with flashlights while other cops, one black and four white, watched or participated. Police said Green had parked near a suspected crack cocaine house...
Although a "battered-child-syndrome" defense is beginning to be recognized, mounting a legal case for these kids is difficult because the law does not, for the most part, recognize such killings as self-defense. Though some occur during an episode of brutal abuse, most happen when parents are in a vulnerable position: coming in the door, watching television, cooking dinner with their back turned, or sleeping. That may be the only time youngsters can overpower their abusers, but it makes the killing appear to be cold-blooded murder...