Word: brute
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anthony Quinn as the strong man is a perfect brute: a genuine gorilla without ever a stroke of undue breast-beating...
...brute and his half-wit mistress are subhuman, because inarticulate. This it is almost to be expected that a movie which details their adventures truthfully and without claptrap should quickly become wearisome. This is pointed up by the brief appearance of the tightrope walker, who is gloriously articulate. La Strada takes on its fullest life when he is onscreen. He is like a nimble, lively Orpheus in a hell of groping and grunting, and Richard Basehart plays him brilliantly. Signor Fellini has created one character of un-crippled humanity, and for a few scenes has matter worthy of the scrupulous...
...effort to divide and maintain control; the purge of Jewish doctors on a trumped-up charge of poisoning the General Staff; Stalin's assessment, shortly before his fatal stroke, of his possible successors-"Not Malenkov. Malenkov is an intellectual. Intellectuals have never made good leaders. Who is the brute among them? Who is the man most like...
...following season, Haughton had to revamp the offense completely, as the last remnants of the brute force plays were abolished, with rules prohibiting pushing and pulling of the runner. The wedge had disappeared long since; it had to. Public outcry over football deaths and injuries had reached such an extent that in 1906 President Roosevelt influenced the College to stop the game once again. Haughton's arrival signaled resumption...
Caesar: Et tu, Brute...