Word: brutalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captain linebacker Joe Nastri, the Big Green held Yale's brutal ground game to three yards rushing in the second half. On offense, sophomore tailback Jeff Dufresne (31 carries, 116 yards against the Elis) has come out of nowhere to add balance to superb quarterback Buddy Teevens's passing game...
...brutal war between the Syrians and the Christians was not directly related to the Middle East peace talks that begin in Washington this week. Nonetheless, a substantial Israeli military intervention on behalf of their embattled Lebanese clients-particularly if it led to a confrontation with the Syrian army -would clearly threaten the outcome of those negotiations. So far, the Israelis' reaction to the fighting has been limited. They have provided the Christians with medical aid, and presumably some weapons, but they have not bombed and strafed Palestinian and Muslim strongholds as in previous Lebanese flare...
...outline of Billy Hayes' true story -he is an American youth who escaped a Turkish jail after he was caught carrying hashish in Istanbul-suggests the possibility of a familiar kind of genre film. Clever and desperate prisoners concocting elaborate escape plans, fooling their dense and brutal warders, finally making it to freedom despite the odds -that sort of nonsense, escapist entertainment in the most literal sense of the term. Indeed, the promotion for this film encourages such expectations...
...first "involuntary conclave," in 1241, consisted of ten Cardinals who were shut up in a dilapidated palace by a powerful Roman senator to keep them from being influenced by Emperor Frederick II, then besieging the city. Three of the Cardinals died of brutal treatment; the remaining seven elected a Pope who died within 16 days, after excommunicating the bad senator...
...children. Rogosin's camera-work starkly captures the cold hostility of Johannesburg; throughout the film there are shots of black and white workers moving, zombie-like, through the dreary streets of the city. These shots repeat throughout the film, setting a motif of alienation that reinforces the brutal racism depicted through Zach's travails...