Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students, parents and trend-conscious educators breathed sighs of relief last winter when Harvard College made it clear that, despite ever-rising costs and brutal budget cuts, it would hold fast to the practice of admitting all qualified applicants and offering all the needy ones full "need-based" aid packages to meet the school's skyrocketing fees...
...illegal immigration. But the amnesty only applies to persons who entered the country before Jan. 1, 1978. It grants only official residency status--not citizenship--and forbids food stamps and Medicaid to any such persons. Still, even the limited amnesty would relieve undocumented workers' fears of midnight raids by brutal immigration enforcement officers...
...tries to take control of his riven country, Gemayel also suffers from a more personal handicap, a reputation as a violent and ruthless strongman (see box). His stature was hardly helped by the brutal tactics that ensured his election last week...
Maggots! Corpses! Brutal cops! Fascist regalia! Devouring moms! Faithless wives! And on every possible occasion blood spurting and puddling. At the center of the chaos an innocent everyboy (Bob Geldof, lead singer with those punkers' punkers, the Boomtown Rats) broods about how iniquitous life is driving him crazy. It is a story so familiar that it requires almost no dialogue to tell. Simple-minded songs from the Pink Floyd's 1979 five-time platinum seller do the job, along with banal, if sometimes lively, imagery supplied by Director Alan Parker (Fame, Midnight Express). He has warmed over...
...oversized praying mantis, and it flowed like a surfer. As it swept nearer, Teresa saw it was somebody in cutoffs and knee warmers, a girl because she had an elastic top. She was riding a skateboard and wearing headphones clamped over both ears. She looked like . . . something intelligent but brutal from science fiction." Peck, 48, an American who attended Oxford, echoes his colleagues in teen realism when he says, "We rarely celebrate the captains of athletic teams; the most popular girl in school or the gang leader. We write for and about people who are gathering strength, solvers of problems...