Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israel-Syria track of the Middle East peace process skidded to a halt in May 1996, when Netanyahu came to power and swore never to meet Syria's chief condition for peace: Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. But after a particularly brutal year for Israeli forces patrolling its self-declared "security zone" in south Lebanon ? where Syria has sufficient influence to damp down anti-Israeli activities ? there may be some room for negotiation...
DIED. SIR ERIC GAIRY, 75, brutal and bizarre Premier of Grenada from 1967 to 1979; in Grand Anse, Grenada. A grass-roots labor leader who came to power by flouting the colonial plantocracy, Gairy ruled by caprice. He terrorized his opponents with his henchmen, the Mongoose Gang; traveled to the U.N. to expound on UFOs; and once visited London to judge a Miss World contest (the winner, no surprise, was Miss Grenada...
...last saw BRANDON TARTIKOFF in June, when we met for a drink in Los Angeles. He had just come through a brutal series of chemotherapy sessions (battling a recurrence of the cancer that had first struck him when he was 23), but was eager to do what he always loved--talk about TV. Walking into the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel, he looked gaunt and thin, a baseball cap covering his bald head. It took real guts to show up at this sybaritic show-biz haunt so boldly announcing his illness. But for Tartikoff, it was a statement...
...Manson's Tourniquet, we are treated to the sight of Manson shaving his own armpit; in Sigismondi's clip for The Beautiful People, we see writhing worms, rows of stomping fascistic boots and Manson's mouth pushed open by some cruel dental device. The songs themselves are dumb and brutal, but the videos have a ghastly playfulness that evokes David Lynch and Federico Fellini...
...commentary on the celebration of the country's 50th anniversary of independence from the British, Salman Rushdie provides a brutal but honest assessment of the grim political and social scenario in India [WORLD, Aug. 11]. I often wonder what has wounded India more--200 years of colonial rule or 50 years of pseudosocialist government by lackluster, dishonest politicians. RAJENDRA K. ANEJA Sao Paulo...