Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PROTOTYPE of the New Woman is Anna, Lancelot's next-cell neighbor, who was shocked into catatonia by brutal rape. Lancelot is able to uncoil her after six months in her reactionless fetal position by knocking in code on the wall, to which she finally responds. Stripping down communication to the most basic level is a favorite Percy theme. It is part of Lancelot's Romantic notion that Anna has transcended the violence that confronted her and thus is capable of becoming the New Woman...
...army's methods of countering terror are brutal. In a scathing report last month, Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, accused the military of arbitrary detention, torture, summary executions and the "disappearance" of at least 500 suspects since the coup. Amnesty charges that many of the desaparecidos were innocent citizens abducted and murdered by soldiers and police in mufti; victims' bodies have turned up "at the bottom of lakes, decomposing in rubbish heaps or blown to pieces in quarries...
...answer the telephone with their names, not just the telephone number. Schlesinger elevated scientific types to the top jobs and fired some 1,500 of the "old boys"-undercover agents who had come in from the cold to cushy jobs in the home office. "He was very, very brutal about it," complains one ex-CIA officer. "He just sent out notices, 'Bam, you've had it!' " Schlesinger dismisses the charge. "Considering the slipperiness of some of those characters, I was too gentle!" says...
...exciting tension of head-to-head battle becomes brutal and dreaded tension, however, when the battle takes place between teammates vying for a spot on the squad. It happens in all sports at Harvard, of course, but the most painful examples are the seat-races of crew and the challenge matches of tennis...
...flips out. Throughout, this out-of-place Ivy Leaguer has been nicely underplayed by Michael Ontkean. But in the denouement he is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind of comic response, thus vitiating the power of an energetic and original movie that gamely risks, in its more brutal moments, being mistaken for the very sort of thing it is criticizing. Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast skating and some solid body checking, but in the last period it makes a final costly slip?and misses its goal...