Word: brutalize
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Gigantic pink plastic bungs, small smoking stones" which look like deformed chestnuts. brutal-looking "power hitters" to help a smoker quickly inhale larger amounts of that illegal smoke--all must go, according to a new state Law passed this winter...
...protest the brutal breaking of workers' strikes by the police and army, the shooting of people, beatings, the internment of many thousands of people in prisons and camps." With those searing words, more than 100 prominent Polish intellectuals and artists last week denounced the martial law regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski in a petition sent to the nation's parliament and Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Roman Catholic primate...
...remains to be seen what effect such admonitions can have on a regime that cited protests, rebellion and impending civil war as its reasons for declaring martial law in the first place on Dec. 13. That argument could easily be dismissed as the rationalization of a cynical and brutal Communist regime. But the view that Solidarity went too far has been echoed by some respected Western observers and commentators...
...Midnight Express he kept insisting that the whole world is a Turkish prison, when really only Turkish prisons are Turkish prisons). Except for reaching for too big a finish, a fight between George and the man who has taken his place in Faith's life that is too brutal for what has gone before, Parker controls himself here...
...Mother Teresa of Calcutta should commit murder, any court might weigh her amazing life's labor against the evil of the one deed. The murder would be the exception in a life that otherwise displayed merit and extravagantly claimed mercy. But Jack Abbott's vividly ranting book, brutal and brutalized, should have made the jury wonder which was more characteristic of the man: literature or murder. In a long and essentially tragic perspective (in which all consequences are endured, all debts paid), literature performs its redemptions. Mailer's formula is a shallow little mechanism. "Culture is worth...