Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wired is tough and brutal. John Belushi, one off the funniest men to come along in the last decade, also happened to take a lot of drugs, as Woodward makes painfully clear. More drugs than most people think a hundred people could do in a lifetime. Belushi did them fast and frequently. One of his doctors, Woodward writes, put this down in a file about Belushi's medical history...
...West (1969), an outsider's glorious, besotted tribute to classical Hollywood cinema. This time, though, the characters are not grand, strutting archetypes. Noodles and Max, their henchmen and adversaries, are spindly figures lost in venality; and Leone's film, true to its subject, is cold, brooding and brutal...
...helps explain motive and madness, Troyat finds the key to Ivan's character in the ruler's early life. The heir to the throne of Muscovy was orphaned at seven, and he grew up amid endless scheming by Russia's landed aristocracy, the boyars. "Observing the brutal treatment that grown men inflicted on their fellows, he made ready to imitate them by tormenting animals," writes Troyat. "Standing on the ramparts of the Kremlin fortress, he would whirl young dogs above his head and hurl them down to the courtyard to break their bones. Their plaintive yelps satisfied...
Only about 500 supporters answered Scargill's plea for an even bigger turnout the following day. Then Scargill was arrested for obstruction at Orgreave's main gate. He was quickly released on bail, but the reaction was nonetheless swift and brutal. Within hours, more than 3,000 demonstrators had gathered, and police charges were meeting stiffer resistance. Lengths of wire were strung across the road at the height of a horse's fetlock and a rider's neck. Telephone poles were ripped down and used as battering rams against police lines. The authorities and some miners...
...cousin Nicholas Ferraro, then Queens district attorney, gave her a job as an assistant prosecutor. She ran the special victims bureau, handling cases of child abuse and domestic violence so brutal and disturbing that she was unable to sleep at night. While on duty, however, Ferraro was a tough and effective prosecutor. "All the cops loved her," recalls Nick Ferraro. After four years, she was emotionally drained but politically invigorated: the experience, Ferraro says, made her liberal on social issues. She quit and ran successfully for Congress under the slogan FINALLY, A TOUGH DEMOCRAT...