Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political system that makes leadership such a personal matter, Ted Kennedy will be a central figure no matter what the circumstances. His determination to stay the distance in the brutal, exhausting primary fight and to raise his voice even in his hour of greatest defeat was courageous...
...strict monetarist policies, following the doctrine of U.S. Economist Milton Friedman. She has rigidly controlled the money supply, doubled the value-added tax, cut benefits for striking workers, and slashed $20 billion in public spending for all manner of education, housing and municipal programs. Thatcher defends the brutal cuts on the grounds that she won the election with the candid promise that "things will get worse before they get better," and Britons should not be surprised that they have. But even some of her close supporters are now beginning to wonder how much worse that means...
Some 250 miles east of where the party of illegal immigrants died in the desert, Douglas was the site of an episode that reflects another bitter and brutal aspect of the problems stemming from aliens crossing the border. Two ranching brothers-Patrick Hanigan, 26, and Thomas Hanigan, 23-were on trial last week in federal court in Tucson, charged with beating and robbing three Mexican aliens in 1976. The case has divided the city of Douglas and inflamed passions on both sides of the border. Many ranchers of Anglo-Saxon descent-the "Anglos"-insist that the Hanigans are being unfairly...
Fuller's dream movie has about it a mellowness that contrasts sharply with the brutal force of his earlier films, which often derived their power from the simple act of upending generic conventions-having the hero actually pull the trigger at the moment when normally he might be expected to holster his gun, or even fall into hysterics just when he was supposed to be most tightly controlled. Fuller is still doing this in Big Red, but in a much more benign way. In the movie, which traces the lives of four privates and their sergeant (Lee Marvin) from...
...Actor Christopher Jones. In Haywire, a memoir that has become a TV film, Brooke Hayward (daughter of Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward) immortalizes a family history of divorce, breakdown, suicide. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford depicts her mother, Actress Joan Crawford, as a promiscuous lush given to brutal child abuse. In I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, TV Producer Barbara Gordon publicizes the story of her ad diction to Valium. In Memoir of a Gambler, Play wright Jack Richardson details his flings with Las Vegas whores. Rhythm and Blues Singer Marvin Gaye has even turned...