Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will insist that it is possible to slash the deficit, increase defense spending (next year by 3% after inflation), and still not raise taxes. Using rosy economic forecasts to lowball the deficit, the White House would lop off the $40 billion or so mandated by Gramm-Rudman by making brutal cuts in domestic spending. Some federal programs, such as the Small Business Administration and the Job Corps, would be wiped out altogether. Others, like Medicare and federal housing subsidies, would be sharply cut. To raise additional revenue, the Government would sell off large chunks of federal property, including Washington National...
Within minutes, army troops from a nearby barracks descended on the crowd. The soldiers fired rifles into the air, rained down blows with hardwood clubs, and barged into the cathedral in search of the instigators. As word of the brutal military response spread, thousands of demonstrators roamed through the historic town. The following day the Tonton Macoute showed it had learned nothing from the November killing of the Gonaives students. At a demonstration by several thousand people outside the Cap Haitien Cathedral, militiamen fired wildly into the crowd, killing three people and wounding...
...crew embarks on another momentous trip: to the Soviet Union to film a mini-series based on Peter's life. But the production is in turmoil from the start, and the movie's creator is fired before the crew sets foot on Russian soil. The Soviet bureaucracy and brutal cold cause countless hardships and delays. Then the star falls ill and has to quit before filming is complete. His role is taken over by an unknown look-alike...
Restoration comedy depicted a world obsessed with money, manners, fashion and family tree, severe in its standards of social acceptability and brutal in its treatment of those deemed unfit. Bond's adaptation of the genre retains its rounded invective and withering humor. The wicked lord, pondering the corpse of his rich, social-climbing bride, decides to prop her up at the table: "Stretched out on the floor could only encourage the lowest of surmises." His equally malicious mother, listening to the plea on bended knee of the duped servant's wife, says imperiously, "Get up, child. A thing...
...Buttle home are later seen relaxing among themselves, complaining about how hot their uniforms are, and even practicing Christmas carols. Within the Ministry itself, barried, faceless clerks evade the hawkish eyes of their supervisors in order to watch Casablanca on their telescreens. Although these people are serving under a brutal system, they are nonetheless living creatures, unlike the automatons of Orwell's novel. There is even a resistance movement, evidencing itself in a variety of sudden explosions, which occur so often that they are hardly noticed...