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Berlin Alexanderplatz. The harsh twilight of an amiable brute (Gunter Lamprecht) presages the arrival of Nazism's long night. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's mesmerizing 15½-hour film is a masterpiece of social and sexual misanthropy...
...wrote: "Of course it is brutal. So is Homer brutal, and Tolstoi; that is, they all alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown all our old animal instincts yet, heaven grant we never shall! The moment that, as a nation, we lose brute force, or an admiration for brute force, from that moment poetry and art are forever dead among us, and we will have nothing but grammar and mathematics left. The only way poetry can ever reach one is through one's brute instincts. 'Charge of the Light Brigade...
Perhaps 5 ft. 10 in., 210 Ibs., Rozier is a brute with guile, whose balance is such that he seems to be bulldogged off the field more often than he is tumbled off his feet. Rozier's 29 touchdowns this season are an N.C.A.A. record. Among the last dozen Heisman-winning running backs, only Billy Sims of Oklahoma (1978) carried so seldom (an average 23 times a game compared with 30 last season for Georgia's Herschel Walker). Still, Rozier leads the nation's rushers with 2,148 yds., 7.8 per carry. In Rozier's third...
...West the selection was widely hailed. President Reagan called the choice a "triumph of moral force over brute force." Pope John Paul II commended the Nobel committee for honoring the "intent to resolve the difficult problems of the world of the worker, and of Polish society, through the peaceful means of sincere dialogue and the reciprocal cooperation...
...Perhaps, as she stood beside the Ouse, as World War II and the war's changes closed over her, Virginia Woolf came to feel at last like war-shocked Septimus Smith, whose suicide she had described in Mrs. Dalloway: "Human nature, in short, was on him-the repulsive brute with the blood-red nostrils. . . . The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself...