Word: brutalize
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...eager to celebrate the memory of man whose legacy this same nation has only recently repudiated. Repudiated by electing a president and a Congress who have little compassion and much class consciousness; who would sully the memory of brave men who fought other, noble wars by engaging themselves in brutal repression abroad; who would reduce government from a friend of the people to a friend of the wealthy. Ronald Reagan stands for everything FDR stood against--he answers hard times with harder times; he sticks inflexibly to a single policy in the face of overwhelming evidence that...
ZOMO troops are well equipped with machine guns, bazookas, armored vehicles and helicopters. But their favorite weapon is often sheer muscle. Says a British diplomat: "They're exceptionally tough and brutal. I saw three ZOMO thugs beat a striking worker in Warsaw with the butt end of their automatic rifles until both his arms and legs had been broken...
...scope, in which perceptions of strength and weakness-conveyed in words and spirit-are critical elements. Both Helms and Wattenberg would have the President muster academics, peace marchers, public relations experts, labor groups, corporations and churches in a worldwide educational effort to show that the Communist system is a brutal failure...
...Here, as in Lebanon and elsewhere, children are often deliberately placed at the head of demonstrations, marches and funeral processions. Their mere presence gives moral authority to the cause. A booklet under the prosaic title Rubber & Plastic Bullets Kill & Maim contains pictures and stories of child victims; the more brutal the better. Such devices work especially well in Belfast, where everyone gives the impression of knowing everyone else, where people like Paul and Bernadette achieve a dubious celebrity for having had their lives shot out from under them. ut the stories of those two are not nearly as famous...
...title character (Burt Reynolds, in his tough-romantic vein), who is a detective being disciplined with a tour of netherworld duty. What sets them all in muttering motion-in its best passages the movie sounds like a Robert Altman film, full of cynical asides and loopy observations-is the brutal murder of a call girl. Since one of the conventions of up-to-date murder mysteries is that pillars of the community must always have a slimy underside, she turns out to have been the victim of sexual perversity among the local power elite...