Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Volkswagen to take her to the park for a run. As he drove off, a bomb planted under the car exploded; Pringle survived but one of his legs was amputated. On a visit to the hospitalized Chelsea victims, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher condemned the attacks as "cold, callous, brutal and subhuman...
...rookie government of Francois Mitterrand, the incident served as a brutal introduction to the multinational league. Last week Paris hastily plugged the loophole through which the bankers had slipped some of the brightest jewels in the Paribas crown...
...along his theme had been gallantry and inquisitiveness. The guest stars have their fun, the midgets get back their divine employment. But Kevin is on his own in the world, with only a stack of postcards--enough to tell him he was there, to confront him with the brutal fact that he's back here...
Director Hector Babenco succeeds in maintaining a posture of moral ambivalence throughout Pixote. If Babenco sheds no tears for Pixote's lost innocence, neither does he condemn the little criminal for his brutal atrocities. Though occasionally frustrating, this objectivity gives the film enormous credibility. Babenco reveals the truth; in this story, the truth is enough...
...memoirs, Henry Kissinger makes a much better case for gossip. To him, Washington social life is a brutal place, "geared substantially to power, its exercise and its decline ... the topic of who is 'up' and who is 'down' is all consuming." People in Government meet formally by day but get to know one another only at night: "It is at their dinner parties and receptions that the relationships are created without which the machinery of Government would soon stalemate itself." This suggests that gossip is too important to be left to gossip writers, who occupy...