Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best-beloved member of the British royal family is not William, Diana or the Queen, but the Queen Mum. Adored ever since she chose to stay on in London, alongside King George VI, as an example to her countrymen during the brutal Nazi blitz of World War II, the plucky Queen Mother Elizabeth stirred more admiration six weeks ago with a visit to troubled Northern Ireland despite the obvious danger. Last week all the kingdom seemed to be celebrating with her as she turned 83. Much of the day was spent with her royal relatives, but the morning belonged...
...sternum and the upper lobe of his left lung"). A physician like his spiritual contemporary Céline, Döblin saw Germany as a huge human slaughterhouse and Franz as "a big, good-natured sheep.' Mixing statistics of death and disease with the story of some petty, brutal people living in East Berlin, Döblin created a 600-page epic that was part newsreel, part nightmare-a documentary melodrama written in blood and neon. Through his art he exercised the control that Franz and his friends could never exert on their lives...
...Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most of Buñuel's later films. A vehement antifascist, he left Spain in 1938, later won a Cannes Festival Grand Prix for Viridiana (1961) and an Academy Award for his scathing The Discreet Charm...
Victimized by a violent society filled with high-strung, gun-swinging adolescents, the workers try to keep out of the way of clashes between the teenagers and police, but frequently get caught in the middle of the bloody confrontations. Oppressed by a brutal police force which randomly kills first and asks questions later, the workers observe the blatant butchering of innocent citizens knowing that at any time it could be them at the other end of the gun. Manipulated by greedy bosses who refuse to make concessions to their simple requests for more money to enable them to eat their...
...century. But where are the Japanese equivalents of Spielberg and Lucas, Coppola and Scorsese-younger directors who can revitalize the box office and the art form? Some are locked into the industry's tradition-bound system of slow advancement, where experience is rewarded but rarely offered. "This brutal apprenticeship has long controlled the Japanese studio system," notes American Writer-Director Paul Schrader, who will soon go to Japan to film a biography of Novelist Yukio Mishima. "I think we're finally starting to see that system break down...