Word: brutalize
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...island is now a motel, the kind of motel so ancient and creaky that one suspects Norman Bates might leap out from behind any of its murky corners. A brutal storm has flooded the single road that leads away from the motel, so various marooned travelers start checking in one by one. They include a high-strung actress (Rebecca De Mornay) and her resourceful limo driver (John Cusack), a short-fused policeman (Ray Liotta) escorting a murderous prisoner (Jake Busey) and a high-priced hooker escaping Las Vegas to tend to an orange grove in Florida (Amanda Peet...
...serious injury to Hendricks would be a brutal blow for the Crimson. He leads the team in batting average (.381), home runs (5), RBI (29) and slugging (.610) and has also been one of the team’s most consistent pitchers. Walsh said Hendricks will be evaluated this week...
...talk too much," says Egoyan. In some of the film's key scenes Raffi and David verbally spar in a darkened room over the contents of Raffi's cans, labeled Exposed Film. Will shining a light inside be ruinous as well as revelatory? Their dialogue is interspersed with brutal images of murder and rape as depicted in the fictional film. In a scene set during the shooting of the internal film, Armenian and Turkish actors are forced to confront the history that they either never learned or learned to suppress. "[Canada] is a new country, so let's just drop...
...world watched Iraqis celebrating their liberation from an especially vicious tyrant last week, another tyrant took the opportunity to culminate a brutal crackdown on dissidents. The recent wave of suppression carried out by Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba has led to the arrest of some 75 individuals, among them journalists, human rights activists and economists. They have been given, on average, 20-year prison sentences. Secretary of State Colin Powell calls it “the most significant act of political repression in decades...
...conditions here have been brutal the past few days. Rain has dampened the spirit of some of those on the front line, but they have traveled too far to turn back...