Word: brutalizing
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What most sets people on edge about Si Newhouse is not his demand for profit or his wielding of authority but the coarse and sometimes brutal fashion in which he imposes his will. In 1987 he dumped William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker since 1952, barely a year after describing Shawn as one of the three most influential men in his life. Having been widely lambasted for letting Grace Mirabella learn of her 1988 ouster from Vogue through a TV report by gossip columnist Liz Smith, Si diligently informed Anthea Disney in person last year that she was through...
Despite its often brutal subject matter -- one student hangs himself -- this is an upbeat book about triumphing against the odds. Freedman offers moving portraits of two immigrant kids -- one Chinese, the other Dominican -- battling to make it in their adopted country. He also captures the rewards of teaching, while exposing the hardships. Considering the obstacles confronting Seward's teachers and their students, Freedman's book may be misnamed. The victories seem large indeed...
...doctors and nurses, plus technicians, social workers and paramedics, employed by roughly 5,700 emergency departments nationwide. Last year they treated 90 million patients for everything from hangnails to heart attacks. In the busiest hospitals, emergency-room personnel minister to an average of 200 patients in a single, brutal twelve-hour shift, while stretchers stack up in the waiting rooms, hallways and even closets. Staffers eat large meals before going on duty, since there will be no breaks once they start. They treat wounds they hoped never to see outside a war zone: it is to Los Angeles, which...
...power--traditional themes of rock 'n roll, if more explicit--but several groups write lyrics that are among the most thoughtful and compelling in music. Iron Maiden, for instance, have put out songs on such assorted topics as the Crimean War, Coleridge's poetry and the white man's brutal conquest of the American Indian. Maiden write about literature, history and science fiction, but never, ever, about the shopworn topics that saturate contemporary rock music...
...being ridiculous? I admit that as a kid I saw Roy Rogers shoot-'em- ups and the brutal battles between Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. These didn't warp me for life. But I never saw anything so violent as Batman before I could tie my shoelaces, and to this day I don't have the stomach to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As a teenager I thought the Rolling Stones' Let's Spend the Night Together was cool, but it's a long way from that to this Guns N' Roses lyric: "Panties 'round your knees/ With your...