Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most civil wars, the war in Cambodia has been particularly brutal for civilians. Businesses in Phnom Penh have shut down for want of customers and for fear of rocket attacks in parts of the city. The city's hospitals are over-crowded with civilians suffering from shelling, disease, and starvation. As of this week, there are not even any ambulances available to transport wounded and dying civilians to the hospitals. Children scour the city's streets and dumps looking for enough food to stay alive; merchants are selling off what remains of their inventories. A fear has taken hold...
...that there is no direct equation between an arms buildup and war. Until recently, the area importing the most arms was neither the Middle East nor Indochina, but the industrial nations of Western Europe?and they have been at peace for nearly three decades. It is also true that brutal combat does not require advanced weapons: the horrors of Europe's Thirty Years War of the 17th century, the U.S. Civil War and World War I testify to that...
...year ago this month, in one of the worst battles of the war, Communist-led Khmer insurgents pounded the Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh with artillery and rocket fire for seven straight weeks. Somehow the city survived. Last week, it was once again hunkering down for another brutal assault. The insurgent forces, who now control most of Cambodia outside the major cities, are currently concentrating their attacks on Neak Luong, a small but vital Mekong River shipping channel 32 miles southeast of the capital. But there are daily rocket attacks in and around Phnom-Penh, and it is only...
...supposed to groove to the film instead of watching it. But the rest of Alice's journey from domination and fear to non-sexist union is much better. Scorsese has a great sense of how people miss each other's intentions, of how conflicts--and even the most brutal emotional cruelty--is often no one's fault. It takes the most indefatigable kind of strength--like what grows into Alice--to do something about this. All filmed in the instant consumer glare of Tucson, Phoenix, Johnny Carson and potato chips. At the Beacon Hill, with a pretty but stony Kris...
...January and February on the Cape are brutal," Jimmy says. "especially February," Jimmy a dark Irishman from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, and Louise have lived in Wellfleet two years. They are fortunate in finding work year round, in the summer, they both work at a restaurant in North Truro, in winter he works construction, sporadically, and she is a bank teller is Provincetown, Neither of them enjoys the job, but feels it is worth...