Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...robbing, raping and assaulting one another. The curse of violent crime is rampant not just in the ghettos of depressed cities, where it always has been a malignant force to contend with, but everywhere in urban areas, in suburbs and peaceful countrysides. More significant, the crimes are becoming more brutal, more irrational, more random ?and therefore all the more frightening...
Houston and Dallas also are outdoing their brutal past, setting new violent crime records. Washington, D.C., suffered an 11% rise in homicides. New Orleans has replaced Houston as the nation's most murderous city, with a rate of 23 per 100,000 in the first half...
Pavel Kohout's The Hangwoman details the effortlessness of killing in modern society. By setting his satiric novel in a school for executioners, Kohout presents a brutal and vivid image which he masks in the lightness of his writing. The school, the seven students, and the two directors become metaphors for the interactions of society, humanity, and bureaucracy...
...them, while she remains passive. When a shy, poetic classmate of hers feels that his love for Lizinka has been repulsed, he commits murder and then suicide. Later, Assistant Professor Simsa becomes attracted to his pupil, but finds that his impotence is directly proportional to his desire. In a brutal and surreal scene, he takes Lizinka to a prison and tries to rape her while he hangs a prisoner--a mass rapist and murderer--from the gallows. Throughout, Lizinka is unmoved...
...brutal civil war in El Salvador was between battles last week. In the only major skirmish, Salvadoran soldiers clashed with armed teen-agers sympathetic to the rebel cause in the village of San Lorenzo. The toll, according to an army major: 40 guerrillas and one soldier dead. From their hideouts in remote areas near the border with Honduras, leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front emerged briefly to blockade roads and blow up a number of bridges and power lines. Meanwhile, death squads of both right and left still roamed the land, murdering anyone they suspected...