Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the Andropov era, the overwhelming majority of Soviets have lost their fear of the midnight knock on the door and the random arrest, but the KGB still moves with brutal swiftness to suppress dangerous displays of "nonconformity." One innovation was the creation of a KGB directorate to control political, nationalist and religious dissent. The directorate has achieved results without great social disruption, something that Andropov's conservative comrades on the Politburo clearly value. The democratic movement within the Soviet Union that first surfaced in the 1960s and gained impetus from the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Human Rights has been...
...Japanese industrial rise has been depicted largely in terms of a work force that labors with an almost cultish devotion to the common economic good. That was before a Japanese journalist named Satoshi Kamata went to work on a Toyota assembly line and kept a diary. The brutal conditions he describes in Japan in the Passing Lane (Pantheon; 211 pages; $14.95) seem like something from a Charles Dickens novel...
...cold ugliness of the environment is set off against the powerful, raw life-forces of the high school kids, who find their outlet in American rock and roll songs. Gothar tries, however, to make this brutal contrast bolster up wooden acting, unimaginative cinematography, incomprehensible scenes and insignificant symbols, not too mention cliched, anemic dialogue...
Several of the scenes seem to exist only to reinforce a brutal, Lord-of-the-Files sense of the school. In one, a group of kids in a classroom groan an incomprehensible ditty about teeny-weeny-twirly-spirals. Yet, the movie gets the benefit of the doubt in this case, since the translation is probably to blame for taking away the meaning of the scene. Some of the lines and gestures, though, can only be schmaltz in any language. At one point, Dini is at a bar with an old con; after explaining his feelings, the con mutters...
SITTING IN HIS OFFICE one afternoon last month, Nigerian President Shehu Shagari acted to make life miserable for millions living in his country. In an executive order as simple as it was brutal, Shagari gave all unskilled foreigners living illegally in Nigeria two weeks to leave. The declaration also applied to a few thousand teachers, and by late January, more than two million Ghanaians-- the largest group of illegal aliens in Nigeria--packed up and headed for the border...