Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baby-blue wedding with six bridesmaids, of becoming the perfect housekeeper and sex partner, and of having six children [and] writing perfect novels while perfect cakes baked in the oven in my Betty Crocker kitchen." She never made it. Instead, Daniell got hitched at 16 to a classically brutal good ole boy, divorced him and married upward to a dull architect, raised three children, had an affair with a "Famous Southern Poet," married again, a Northerner a decade her junior, left him for an extended orgy of Jack Daniel's, Quaaludes, dope, depression and her ultimate salvation, writing. Along...
Tolbert's brutal downfall surprised few Liberia watchers. Though the country was long one of the most stable in black Africa, there was increasing dissatisfaction with Tolbert's autocratic ways and with the corruption and inefficiency of his top-heavy bureaucracy. Perhaps most resented was the dominance of the so-called Americo-Liberians, descendants of the freed American slaves who began settling on the western Guinea coast in 1822. Though the vast majority of the country's 1.7 million people are impoverished tribal Africans, most of the political power and wealth have traditionally been controlled...
...superintendent of a Bronx apartment house; one voice that sings "Reach out" belongs to Phoebe Snow; there is a kid much in demand because he had his front teeth extracted when he was 2½. There is also a serious actress: "I won't do those brutal pesticides that poison the environment, and I won't do douches ... You might say that my standards are basically political...
Both participants suffer. Ben Ata is slowly ennobled by contact with his bride, but at a cost of self-confidence. His once brutal decisiveness has been tempered by the uncertainties of reflection. Al∙Ith, experienced in the bloodless sex of her own zone, sinks into a passion and carnality as frightful to her as it is exhilarating...
Gradually, with the help of Marie St. Jacques, a Canadian economist whom he abducts and then saves from a brutal rape, Bourne-Cain learns that he is a tender, brave man as well. But Carlos is determined to destroy his reputed rival. So are Cain's former masters in the Washington intelligence establishment, who had originally set him up to trap Carlos and are now persuaded that he has turned. Bourne's deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet...