Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little less than three weeks before the voting, Carolyn Polhemus, a member of Horgan's staff and Rusty's colleague, has been found murdered in gruesome, suggestive circumstances: nude, bound, apparently raped. Horgan's political opponents create a furor, and the local papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach even the chief prosecutor's office and go unpunished, it is time for a change. As he has so often in the past, Horgan turns to Rusty, his reliable protege: "Catch me a perpetrator and save my worthless...
...Prince of the City, the investigative process is shown to be a brutal affair. In the Untouchables it is celebrated. As the Ness gang attempts to draw a confession from one of Capone's men, they shoot a dead body in the view of the captured assailant. The man is terrorized into confessing. The audience invariably cheers, for the good guys have won. Never mind if such tactics raise serious questions about the rights of the arrested...
...outcome of the trial had never been in doubt. The evidence against Barbie was overwhelming. From the testimony of French Jews and Resistance fighters, Barbie's chief victims, came a portrait of a particularly brutal fanatic with a taste for sadism. In his final, calm but chilling summing up, Prosecutor Pierre Truche said, "This is not the trial of a German but of a torturer. It is of a man still loyal to his Nazi ideals...
What a difference a year makes. In 1986 memories of brutal hijackings were painfully fresh, and the headlines were filled with reports of a radioactive cloud drifting westward over Europe from the damaged Soviet nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Speculation abounded that Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi might take bloody revenge for the U.S. bombing of Tripoli on American tourists abroad. No wonder Americans looked closer to home for vacation spots. One year later, as fears about safety in Europe have faded, Americans are grabbing their passports, packing their guidebooks and crossing the Atlantic again in huge waves. Tour operators, airlines, hotels...
...this madcap adventure came to a brutal halt right before spring break--the day we received our housing assignments. I read the notice on my doorstep. It said I had been assigned to Cabot House for the next three years or 30,000 miles of shuttle bus rides, whichever came first...