Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pushers by winning passage of a bill mandating a life sentence for anyone convicted of selling hard drugs. When a revolt broke out among convicts at Attica state prison in 1971, he refused to meet with the rebels as they demanded. When they failed to surrender, he permitted a brutal charge that cost the lives of 29 prisoners and ten guards who were held as hostages. As Watergate unfolded, he never offered a word of criticism of Nixon. But in his last months in office, Rockefeller demonstrated that his humanitarian instincts were not permanently interred. In succession, he vetoed bills...
...writes in a style charged with Bruce's own idiom and raging humor and amazingly achieves in print something approaching the same verbal energy. You cannot read his harrowing descriptions of Bruce's needle ravaged limbs or his raucously humorous passages describing Lenny's absurd, infantile and frequently brutal relationships without entering deeply into the man's experience...
...them to justice. Over a dozen police vehicles are put out of commission during the rigors of the pursuit, but no cop ever gets hurt. This lends the movie a trace of the fabulous, like some sort of STP fairy tale. For the trio, however, the moral is finally brutal and predictable...
...returns home seeking solutions to his problems. During the days he and his wife spend at the home of Margaret and Will, they force their hosts to make a series of confessions--about the bitter emptiness of their marriage, about Margaret's infidelities and Will's brutal jealousy. Long repressed memories of hatred and disappointment are unburied and the civilized defenses that had checked the rage of each character are progressively stripped away. The audience, along with the people on the stage, struggles from fiction to a separate reality, while layers of deception are removed only to expose new deceits...
Spain has long held a firm grip on man's imagination. It is the land of mystery, a Gothic tapestry sewn together from strands of brutal sunshine and lustful blood, of tart wine and even tarter women. It is the secret of thunderous clouds menacing El Greco's Toledo; the acrid fire consuming the bodies of heretics during the Inquisition; the melancholy strains of a guitar played after a day's labor in the fields; the gnarled branches of the olive trees that cluster throughout the sun-beaten hills. It is the legend of the independence of the leather-skinned...