Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of which seems strange in this brutal but magnificent film set in turn-of-the-century Australia, a film at once dispassionate and horrifying, which manages to capture the essence of racial, and more importantly random violence more successfully than any in recent memory...
...very time when Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government was slumping and vulnerable to possible attack, some 1,250 Labor Party delegates trekked to the seaside resort of Blackpool for their annual conference last week and promptly turned their guns on one another. The result was a brutal factional dogfight that even the pro-Labor Daily Mirror branded "a triumph for lunacy...
...some who have watched him at first hand, Saddam projects a dual personality. Says a Western diplomat: "You think he's the most brutal of the brutal, and then there he is in the market fondling babies. It's really quite amazing." On tour, he loves to hand out wads of freshly minted bank notes to astonished villagers, and one of his pet schemes is to see that everyone under 45 becomes literate. Typically, however, there is no free choice about it: those who do not go to class are fined or jailed. In 1963 he married...
...Black female celebrity is pretty, or sexy, or married to a White man, she is called a talentless whore. If she's elegant or highbrow or intellectual, she's pronounced funny-looking, uptight, or in need of a good brutal fuck. If she happens to appeal to a White audience, she is despised. If she's independent, physical, or aggressive, she's called a dyke...
...frustrated fans of the legions of teams he has defeated, he is a relentlessly slippery recruiter, a ruthless win-at-all-costs tyrant. To some, he is the demigod of the autumn religion, the finest coach of a uniquely American game. To others, he is the proselytizer of a brutal sport, a symbol of a national fixation on violence...