Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lull before a fresh ground assault. Yeltsin is facing renewed political opposition to the unpopular war at home and abroad. In Moscow, Grigory Yavlinsky, a leading reform lawmaker, called for his resignation. European criticism became unabashed for the first time, as France demanded that Russia explain the increasingly brutal campaign, Germany accused Russia of violating Chechens' human rights and British officials called for an end to the fighting. In Grozny, another Russian reformer, Sergei Kovalyov, emerged from three weeks in the besieged presidential palace to warn, "It's unacceptable for a country to lie constantly. Grozny now will decide...
...small dramatization of the merger, look at the best movie of 1994 (some critics say): Pulp Fiction, wherein professional killers engage in 1) savagely flippant violence, and 2) boyishly earnest moralism. A torrent of casual, brutal obscenity flows through discussions marked by a strange, scholastic nicety...
Slasher. The word conjures up images of brutal murders committed in cold blood. A modern day "Jack the Ripper" roves the stacks of Widener, razor in hand, searching for his next victim...
...small boys. Smith's film cloaks itself in the robes of fiction, but draws upon real cases of pederasty in the priesthood of Newfoundland and Canada during the 1970's. Without degenerating into lurid sensationalism, the twopart film details the reality of this painful nightmare, as well as the brutal psychological effects both on the innocent souls of the boys and the souls of the guilty priests...
...evil. Czerny's performance in the role is nothing less than stellar--as his steely eyes glitter, he brings to light both the calculated ruthlessness as well as the moments of ferocious anger in this complex character. Silent and introspective, Kevin is the perfect victim and foil for this brutal priest. The bruises which appear on the young boy's face become a map with disturbing clues to the extent to which his body and soul have been violated by Father Lavin...