Word: brutalize
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...after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful in the Northeast, where mountain trails are brutal and steep, composed mostly of rocks the size of refrigerators. You can't navigate them with a bike or, for that matter, with a humvee (the ultimate gearmobile, short of James Bond's Aston Martin with its ejecto seat...
...quietly providing the same service to some other former Soviet republics that have asked for it: Georgia is not the only one being torn apart by a brutal combination of ethnic separatism, factional fighting and tensions between locals and Russians. The U.S. has a strong interest in tamping down the conflicts. "If they are left unsettled," says a senior U.S. official, "they will threaten reform in the new republics, and Russia itself...
...Herbert, 72, the battle marks a brutal climax to a career that has left behind a trail of business enemies. He fought with his brother-in-law, who charged in a lawsuit that Haft had cheated him out of investments in the family's drugstore chain. When Haft's brother Leonard sided with the brother- in-law, Herbert broke off relations with Leonard for 15 years. Herbert made frequent use of his toughness in the 1980s, when he and Robert mounted campaigns to take over such retailing giants as Dayton Hudson and Safeway Foods. While the Hafts never purchased those...
Hard Target would never have been a masterpiece; it lacks Woo's usual subtlety in dramatizing the brutal brotherhood of cops and creeps. It has a promising premise, a Most Dangerous Game gloss about a gang that arranges manhunts for macho millionaires, but nobody has much of a character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times...
Food is there, but a brutal civil war is starving thousands...