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...most brutal fight of the day, 185 Ib. Steve Heslinga of Winthrop destroyed Charley Swanson of Mather in a match that was halted in the second round. The experienced Heslinga capitalized on his longer reach and mercilessly pounded Swanson until the crowd shouted to end the fight. Gutty Swanson's face was a red blur by the match's end, but he fought...
PROBABLY TWO MILLION Vietnamese died in the brutal and senseless American war that ravaged most of their country. U.S. terror bombing in the countryside herded Vietnamese into the cities, severing the ties that bound them to their land and rudely thrusting them into a new and terrible life on the edge of existence. It would be hard to determine who suffered more from the American presence -- the dead or the living...
...brutal actions of the American government can never be undone. To our everlasting shame, they remain woven into the fabric of history as vividly as the bomb craters that pockmark the Vietnamese landscape. Yet this week we can take one small step to acknowledge our responsibility, to make a gesture of friendship, to begin to move away from conflict and toward a growing community of mutual understanding...
...conglomerate-appointed studio moguls (hipper Louis B. Mayers or Darryl F. Zanucks) who sport long hair while dishing out the "terroist utopian thinking" that threatens to stalemate the numbness of the day. For Kael this bureaucratized Pop, this self-serving negativism, is a mass form of deprivation. Brutal movies don't attack present brutality, they practically glamorize it. The mess of movies that package bankrupt values in million dollar budgets, glossy surfaces and you-can't-miss sloganeering rings jingoistic, insidiously so, to Kael...
...Wages of Fear. French, yet a surprising commercial success in the U.S. (both with sub-titles and in a dubbed version). Henri-Georges Clouzot wrote and directed this tragedy of Latin truckers working in a South American town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel...