Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...19th Party Congress 3½ years earlier, Georgy Malenkov, Stalin's own choice for party leadership, had also enunciated the principle of coexistence, but had coupled it with forensic saber-rattling about the "brutal fascist regime" in Washington. Last week Khrushchev was all milk and honey...
Structurally, the plot seems as perfect as the crime. The film's intensity is slow to generate; interest is sustained, though perhaps not as much as it might, by concentration on the emotion of the distraught wife. Some scenes are grotesque, but they are never offensively so. Paul Meurisse, brutal and dynamic, plays the lecher of women and money. Vera Clouzot, palpitating in guilt and disease, is morally both noble and weak as his wife. Simone Signoret, a Shelley Winters of the Champs Elysees, is calm and ecstatically vengeful. The composite is queer, probing, and quite perfect...
...brutal and senseless mob attack, besides turning the stomach of even his warm supporters, apparently went beyond the dictator's intentions. He blustered that the opposition's "intellectual guerrillas" were to blame, and threatened to "fight back without quarter." He also moved fast to hush up news of the massacre. By quickly blocking news cables, the government successfully kept the story out of most papers abroad; only travelers' reports, days later, spelled out the ugly truth. The government's censors muzzled the local press...
...This process is hardly a pleasant one, yet in The Rose Tattoo, Williams very skillfully adapts it to the purposes of comedy. It is not a kind of humor, though, that will give an audience a feeling of lighthearted pleasure--it is sweaty and intense and at times almost brutal...
...Frenchmen wept when they read in their newspapers one October morning in 1944 that Louis Renault had died in a Paris nursing home. He had been rich, powerful and famous, cantankerous, brilliant, often brutal, the little Napoleon of an automaking empire. But France's only eulogy for him was a grimace and an ugly word: "collaborator." Last week, in the cooler atmosphere of eleven years later, Louis Renault's widow sought a court decision to establish that Renault had not died of uremia, but had been "deliberately murdered after torture." The widow's story made big headlines...