Word: brutalizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero in the throes of creation. There is little sense of the penetrating psychological insight of his official portraits, and important events like his rise to court painter are only alluded to, or take place offstage. The horrors of the Napoleonic invasion, reflected in Goya masterpieces like the stark, brutal The Third of May, 1808, are suggested only in hallucination. Nobody claims that art must imitate life. But the real Goya, a man of passion and power, is nowhere in evidence here...
...think brutal murderers should be on campus recruiting," said protester Barry Lefsky...
What seems abundantly clear, though, is that the quick-reacting computerized market is faster and more brutal in punishing corporate managers who make mistakes or whose company or industry is badly positioned. But some experts also feel that, over time, the volatility introduced by program trading will flatten...
...statement issued in Lisbon, Renamo said Machel's Frelimo Party "is responsible for innumerable crimes. Thus we feel no sorrow over the death of Frelimo's chief." Renamo said it would intensify its guerrilla operations, with the goal of the "total liberation of the country." Through a brutal campaign that has killed thousands of civilians and uprooted many more from their homes, Renamo already controls large areas of Mozambique, including two northern provinces...
...A.N.C.'s policy of nonviolence received a sudden and brutal setback in 1960 when police killed 69 unarmed blacks attending a political protest in Sharpeville, a black township 35 miles from Johannesburg. Shortly thereafter, leadership of the organization passed to two of the organization's young comers, Mandela and Tambo, who were law partners and longtime congress members. The A.N.C. was banned by the Pretoria government and began carrying out armed attacks from underground. Mandela and most other A.N.C. leaders were eventually captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage. Tambo escaped because he had been sent abroad to open...