Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Civil Wars is bleaker and more brutal than anything Bochco has done before: an unrelenting parade of vengeful spouses, greed, infidelity, callousness and other mental cruelties. "You're bitter, you're needy, and you're gonna poison whatever and whoever you come in contact with!" shouts a husband at the wife he wants to leave because she has gained too much weight. (She actually looks pretty good.) A rich couple bickers over custody of sterling silver soup tureens and antique snuffboxes, until a stenographer -- who is struggling to pay her son's medical bills -- blows up: "You have no idea...
...went the latest chapter in the often brutal conflict between development and protection of the environment in the increasingly tarnished Golden State. California leads the nation with 283 endangered, threatened or rare species, but despite various state and federal forms of protection, two-thirds of these species continue to decline...
...Apocalypse is different from standard-issue funked-out dance-club rap: in its thick sonic layering, which is playful, graceful and brutal by turns; in its roughhouse lyrics, which are part editorial and part rage, raw but keenly focused; and in its politics. "I think people got a connotation that hard-core rap had to have cursing or gangster stories," Chuck D, 31, reflects. "We've got neither. I wanted to show we could make a hard album without those connotations -- a positive hard-core record." A first step was to cool out on the language, which had been overworked...
This fatalism was the iron at the core of Paris Trout, Dexter's last novel, which won the National Book Award. Brotherly Love deals with tough guys living brutal lives. Toward the end, in the house of an old man who sells guns, matters go sour during a deal and one man shotguns two others. The old man waits to be shot himself, because that is the way things happen; he's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now two lines...
That vision of a democratic Cambodia, alas, is fraught with peril. Chief fear is that the Khmer Rouge, the rebel faction that ruled the country with a brutal hand in the mid-1970s, may try once again to seize power...