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Word: brutally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Dean Archie C. Epps III, an investigation would be based on these groups' "hazing" practices, judging them by the Massachusetts anti-hazing statue that went into effect last year. This statute only bars, "brutal treatment or forced physical activity...which subjects such student or other person to extreme mental stress...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: Going After Black Frats | 5/18/1988 | See Source »

...Bellman and True is an oxymoron: it is, of all things, a dour caper. That is, a usually merry cinematic enterprise -- the one in which a group of swagmen laugh all the way to the supposedly impenetrable bank vault from which they intend to extract millions -- is shown with brutal realism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dour Caper BELLMAN AND TRUE | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

Exhibit A is America's Most Wanted, the new Fox network series that tries to enlist viewers in tracking down criminals on the lam. Each half-hour episode showcases two or three crimes, with the emphasis on brutal rapes and murders. Witnesses and law-enforcement agents are interviewed, and the crime is shown in a dramatized "re-creation." Viewers are then urged to phone in any information on a toll-free hotline, while investigators stand by to pursue leads. Since its Feb. 7 debut, 13 suspects profiled on the show have been apprehended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fact Vs. Fiction on Reality TV | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

Whatever differences Gorbachev had with his second-in-command, this was not the kind of brutal, all-out power struggle that had rocked the Kremlin under previous leaders. Those who know Ligachev agree that he is not hungrily scheming to replace Gorbachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Clash of the Comrades | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...took the practiced ear of Richard Nixon to tell us that. Give him his due. He's got a feel for the pols, and he can sum them up with a brutal line or two. On Meet the Press a few weeks ago, Anchor Tom Brokaw asked if Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the leading Democratic presidential contender, was just "too dull to be an effective nominee." Nixon was ready, dark flash from the eyes. "Let me answer that question this way. I've often said that the best politics is poetry rather than prose. Jesse Jackson is a poet. Cuomo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Of Poets and Word Processors | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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