Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legend. His father, who was mine captain of the Robinson Deep Mine in Johannesburg took him out for his first round at age 15. He parred the first three holes, and thereafter he dedicated himself to improving his game with demonic determination. Short and frail, he adopted a brutal regimen of calisthenics in order to increase his length...
...Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Michigan and Berkeley) are likely to do very well indeed. These are the young lawyers who will be asked to join major corporate legal firms as associates in New York City, Washington, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and other large cities. At these firms, the competition is brutal, and perhaps one in four survive to become partners six years later. The rest spin off to smaller firms, corporate jobs, Government work or other fields. The range of possible career paths is staggering. With the law explosion, a new member of the bar can elect to try a judicial...
Both authors contributed distinctively to their public images. Decades past his prime, Hemingway could still glisten with the confidence of the writing world's heavyweight champion. Norman Mailer nailed the truth with brutal accuracy and a looping mixed metaphor when he boldly announced his own self-aggrandizing shot at the title in Advertisements for Myself'(1959). Hemingway, he wrote, "knew in advance, with a fine sense of timing, that he would have to campaign for himself, that the best tactic to hide the lockjaw of his shrinking genius was to become the personality of our time." Fitzgerald...
That is not to say that in light of the realities of the Mideast some form of Israeli reprisal would not have been understandable after the brutal, peace-shattering Palestinian terrorist attack. Israel could hardly have been expected to undertake a calm, turn-the-other-cheek response to yet another materialization of a threat they have long encountered...
...acting falters, however, with some of the more serious characters. As Dean, a stereotypically sadistic gym coach, Bruce McGill relies too often upon a tough grimace and a raised voice to convey a roughness that is naturally underpinned by an inner softness. Of course, this brutal streak results from insecurity, which in turn stems from his belief that his parents neglected him. Dean's brother, Blaine (Paul LeMat) too often whines his good intentions, when he plays the hero with a mission to exorcise "garbage" from the airwaves. His girlfriend Pam (Candy Clark) also pouts and gestures too conventionally...