Word: brutalize
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...curb crime in a black city but also cope with Washington's frequent mass demonstrations, such as last weekend's Honor America Day (see THE NATION). A tall North Carolinian of 42, Wilson is a self-educated man with a slow drawl, a quick mind, limitless cool?and a brutal candor that is almost unique among the nation's defensive bluecoats. His men often feel so dejected, he admits, that "there's a tendency to say, 'Oh well, just another robbery,' and not respond as we should...
...bless his actors for breathing vitality into his stillborn script. James Earl Jones pours out his rage at existence like a volcanic river of fire, and Ruby Dee's face is one of those relief maps of pain, torment and humiliation that characterize a life when it is brutal, nasty and interminable. The pair ought to get a bonus in salvage...
...essay on human loneliness and eccentricity. There are amusing flashes, as when a bosomy matron hatches a chick in her cleavage, but the general mood is straightforwardly clinical. Fetishism is obviously poignant and, at times, repugnant to Snowdon. Just as his work on aging contained some hospital footage as brutal as any in MASH, he is again deliberately trying to stir his audience. In one vignette, a curmudgeonly lady remarks that upon her death, she wants her 35 dogs "quietly put to sleep." Unfortunately, one of the film's strongest scenes, depicting two bachelor roommates breakfasting with their...
Pusey, in consultation with the Council of Deans and House Masters, decided to call in the police. At 5 a.m. on April 10, 400 police swept into the Yard and arrested the nearly 200 occupiers of University Hall. The police were generally considered brutal and 40 people, mostly bystanders, were treated at Stillman Infirmary and Cambridge City Hospital for police injuries. Pusey's action precipitated a two-week strike which became so serious that the Corporation threatened to close the University...
...Milburn P. Akers, 70, longtime (1949-65) managing editor and editor of the Chicago Sun-Times; of injuries suffered when the car he was driving collided with a truck; near Hopedale, Ill. Akers saw the press as society's watchdog and became famous for his Chicago crusades against brutal police and crooked politicians...