Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brutal battle, head-to-head, toe-to-toe, a real slugfest, waiting for the knockout punch...
...temptation in describing a film like this one is to string together several adjectives-witless, ugly, brutal, insensate, stupid. But one word will serve to cover its multitude of sins: The Island is simply vile...
Such rhetoric would be more reassuring if the U.S.S.R. were not waging a brutal war against the Afghan people, pouring weapons into the Yemens, and supporting Viet Nam's takeover of Indochina. No wonder there is a resurgence of feeling in the U.S. that the Soviets cannot be trusted. No wonder pro-détente liberals like Muskie are less certain than before that the Kremlin is genuinely committed to peaceful coexistence. The onus of showing more restraint is squarely on the Soviet Union these days...
...rhetoric of women's lib may be little known in the U.S.S.R., but the battle of the sexes seems to be heating up. One recent underground feminist publication issued by bitter women in Leningrad attacked the typical Soviet husband as a brutal, drunken, selfish lout. The document charged that "the male contribution in the home is almost nonexistent. Any man who even knows how to hammer a nail is considered a rarity...
...years before handing over the reins in 1969 to his hand-chosen successor, Fauvet. Under Fauvet, Le Monde moved perceptibly left, supporting Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election won by center-right Candidate Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and showing sympathy for the brutal Cambodian Khmer Rouge. In response to increasing criticism from readers and public officials, Fauvet has in the past few years gently nudged Le Monde back toward the political center, most recently chiding French foreign policy for being too soft on the Soviets and too hard on the Americans...