Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hint that he could attempt: o back way from Stalinism's monomanic pursuit of the ultimate, indestructible state. Brezhnes firmly dedicated himself to the status quo, and one doubts that Andropov and Chernenko were ever more than a bad artist's conception. of the Soviet state and his brutal, but failed, attempt to impose socialism by force...
...wall." Reed saw what he wished to see, Nabokov what he saw. One assumes that Gorbachev is no Lenin, except perhaps in intellectual bent, but the problem of perception remains. Today one takes a position between Reed and Nabokov, between the desire for optimism and the knowledge of a brutal regime...
...performance as Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist in The Killing Fields, Haing S. Ngor, 35, earned an Academy Award nomination, but his newfound fame brought a far better reward: a completely unexpected reunion with his only remaining family. Ngor is a Cambodian physician whose own saga of surviving the brutal Khmer Rouge regime closely paralleled the story he enacts in the movie. By the time Ngor escaped from Cambodia in 1979, after four years of torture and forced labor, his entire family, as well as his fiancee, had been murdered by the Communists. Or so he thought, until...
...were England's Contagious Diseases Acts, passed in the 1860s. These laws stipulated that any woman suspected of prostitution would be inspected for venereal diseases: if she was diseased, she was forced to enter a hospital until she was free of desease. The enforcement of these acts, particularly the brutal medical inspection which many women were forced to undergo, horrified the repeal of the acts, she visited prisons and workhouses and came to understand prostitutes as victims both of their socio-economic circumstances and of a moral code which made them criminals but placed no blame on the men they...
...being squeezed. From within, old age and illness are weakening its tired family bosses; impatient younger Mafiosi are killing each other in their brutal reach for power. From without, federal and state authorities seem to be putting aside old rivalries to gang up on the gangsters in a new drive to put their leaders behind bars and shatter their murderous ways of conducting business. There were no fewer than 3,118 indictments against organized-crime figures in the nation last year, and 2,194 convictions. Last week a rash of arrests and the preparation of new charges against the five...