Word: brutalize
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...turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman or the brutal cop. And where once there was subtlety in popular art, now there is sensation. Traditional standards have given way to tribal impulses, which push Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers aside to make way for a dance of the seven veils. By now the dancer is naked; the next stage must...
...series of demonstrations, including protests at the homes of the Palestinian negotiators. "We will not let them sleep," says Jiddah. He and his supporters insist that they rule out the use of violence against fellow Palestinians -- but not against Israelis. The latest round of peace talks produced a particularly brutal series of stabbings and slashings of Israelis by Palestinians. "This is not a spontaneous thing," says Ali Abu Hilal, another opposition activist. "And I think the future will bring more violence." Israeli security experts fear that the rejectionists may embark on a new round of global terror. "Just now their...
...bedrock of honesty is fundamental to society; people cannot live together if no one is able to believe what anyone else is saying. But there also seems to be an honesty threshold, a point beyond which a virtue turns mean and nasty. Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. "Human kind," as T.S. Eliot wrote, "cannot bear very much reality." Truth telling makes it possible for people to coexist; a little lying makes such society tolerable...
...Mary Mara). His aggressive style of humor pushes those close to him away yet there exists a good heart and a subtle vulnerability that the humor tries to mask. For example, in a contest with his own brother for the favor of Elaine, Young's selfish disposition is the brutal key to keeping her away from Stan...
...Kosovars, life is already a nightmare. They vastly outnumber the ethnic Serbs in the impoverished territory, 2 million to 200,000, but Serbs have the guns, control the government and run Kosovo as a brutal police state. The Albanian Human Rights Council reports an average of 190 beatings by police each month for the past year, often followed by jail sentences for "disturbing public order." It has also recorded 106 deaths and about 600 woundings of Kosovars by Serb security forces since Kosovars evicted from the provincial government by Serbs declared an independent republic in July 1990. Unemployment among ethnic...