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Word: brutally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene: a seedy storefront in New York City's Times Square district. Inside a tawdry slide show is under way. The brutal image of a woman being raped flashes onto the screen, then another of a woman in the throes of masochistic ecstasy as she is strangled by her lover. Still other pictures show women being mutilated and even killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Women's War on Porn | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...called himself "The One True Miracle of Equatorial Guinea." With the possible exception of Uganda's deposed dictator, Idi Amin Dada, no African despot has been more brutal and erratic than Francisco Macias Nguema, the President-for-Life of his tiny West African nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Despot's Fall | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Most commonly, lawyers who knew politicians. Some rise above their own human limitations, but more do not. Mostly, they are ordinary men and women, coping fitfully with the failings of others, the endless procession of broken promises and brutal acts that are the daily business of the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging the Judges | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...when she shot her first film, A Little Romance, last year. Mariel Hemingway, 17, who plays Woody Allen's very young lover in Manhattan, was 13 when she began her movie career as the younger sister of the character played by her own sister Margaux in a gaudy and brutal film called Lipstick. Linda Manz, the tough little New York City street kid whose scarred face and back-alley accent gave a saving balance to the prettiness of Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, is the oldest of the lot at nearly 18, but she looks the youngest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

NORTH DALLAS FORTY is a film about the corrupt, exploitative, and brutal industry of professional sports as told by the corrupt, exploitative and brutal industry of movies. Which means that the filmmakers have given the public what they presume it wants to see--a savage, cynical, off-the-wall, black-and-blue comedy that exposes the scarred, flabby, shot-to-hell underbelly of our country's heroes--our athlete superstars. It says that football players are mutilated, dope addled monster-martyrs who are swept up, wrung dry, and fucked over. One character explains, "We're all whores, so we might...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Of Balls and Men | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

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