Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From nowhere -- well, Yugoslavia, actually -- came one of the few entries to uphold the standard of defiantly indigenous "little" films, Emir Kusturica's Papa's Away on a Business Trip. A brutal, poignant, exuberant story of a family rent by political and sexual chicanery, Papa boasts nary a Hurt nor a Kinski among its actors, and earned every frond of Cannes's grand prize, the Palme...
...brutal and unacceptable South African apartheid regime is universally opposed institutionalized racism is a crime against all humanity. In South Africa the Black majority has been more and more insistently struggling for its human rights against an increasingly repressive police system. In this country the issue of our lies to apartheid has taken on a similar urgency...
...Club easily could have sponsored a forum open to those somewhat more ready than the Conservative Club to confront Hoppenstein with the brutal regime he represents. And if the group really intended to hold such an event for which admission would got need to be limited, it should have chosen a larger place...
Outraged divestment users will protest that college, with its elitist irrelevance, its ivory tower seclusion, is the real drug, and that divestment is a much-needed methadone program to take us out of Academics Anonymous and back into the world. Surely the intolerable oppressions of a brutal, racist regime should be more germane to our lives than explicating a Richard Wright poem or memorizing the formula of trinitrotoluene. Well, yes, perhaps South Africa should be more in our thoughts than such dross of academe, but for most...
Judge Samuels, who presided at the original trial in 1979, found Webb's new testimony less credible than that of a seemingly terrified 16-year-old girl who had told a brutal tale of kidnaping, assault and rape. Also troubling were parts of Dotson's testimony last week. While a friend testified that he had spent the evening of the attack with Dotson and two others, Dotson said that he had spent much of the time sleeping in the back seat of a car while his companions were stopping at parties. He might have been separated from the group...