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America has been far from successful in dealing with the sort of crime that obsesses Americans day and night?I mean street crime, crime that invades our neighborhoods and our homes?murders, robberies, rapes, muggings, holdups, break-ins?the kind of brutal violence that makes us fearful of strangers and afraid to go out at night...
...movie is a fairly brutal character study up until the time Popeye finally, albeit tenuously, shakes off his habit. Then, as Doyle goes out for revenge, Frankenheimer changes gear smoothly into the sort of supercharged action adventure that gives memories of the original French Connection some stiff competition. Doyle and his French al lies track Charnier's minions to the ship yards, where they start a shooting match that ends with the threat of the cops getting drowned like water rats and Doyle getting crushed under the keel of a freighter. It is a flamboyant sequence, intended...
Under no circumstances, in Ford's view, would he allow the Cambodians to hold American hostages for months. He believed that the Khmer Rouge were capable of brutal and irrational actions. Thus in the opinion of Ford and Kissinger, the possibility of a slight over-response was a risk worth taking...
...origins of jazz for its most basic, primal elements. He rejects the modern sophistication of chordal structures to construct a new blues form. Ayler digs deep into the tenor saxophone's gutteral voice to produce a sound that is harsh, unsubtle and unpolished. He plays in a strong, brutal manner; he bends, bashes and torments notes until they express what he desires. Usually building around a simple recognizable theme, Ayler relies on a rawness of emotion unfiltered through traditional structure that seems at first grating, but upon extended listening reveals a unique expressiveness. For sheer power of impact, Ayler rivals...
This play begins with a black man raping a white woman. Strangely enough, it is less a brutal physical act than the saddest of requiems. The play ends with the figures of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on a rear stage scrim being spattered with gobs of blood. Thus the rape is, to some degree, an image of the anarchic violence...