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...second-hand, gleaned from other people's books. He longed for a niche in posterity. But in the end he earned little more than the short-lived notoriety of the suicide who murders his beautiful mistress as a prelude to suicide. And that is no more than any brute with a pistol can achieve...
...disastrous search for gold and glory. Critics complain that Herzog treats his subjects too mechanically, and that the film is visually stunning but thematically vacuous. But such criticism misses the point: Herzog's relentlessly realistic re-enactment of the trip--of the assumption of power by a ruthless brute who rapidly develop into a raving megalomamac and whose subordinates lack either the courage or moral strength to overthrow him--is precisely what makes this film so horrifying...
Buzz and Blast. Up on the stage can be found a numbing array of groups and soloists whose names dramatize the nihilism and brute force that have inspired the movement: Clash, Thunder-train, Weirdos, Dictators, Stranglers, Damned, and the demon-eyed New Yorker who could become the Mick Jagger of punk, Richard Hell. The music aims for the gut. Even compared with the more elemental stylings of 1950s rock 'n' roll-which it closely resembles -punk rock is a primal scream. The music comes in fast, short bursts of buzz and blast. Some groups have...
Home Cooking. Instantly, of course, everyone sets about trying to exploit his family. The press invades the Kusters' modest flat, pretending sympathy while searching for sensation. This they find easily by twisting innocent responses to their queries into a portrait of the late Kusters as a drunken brute...
...book succeeds. What it lacks in depth and style, it makes up in sheer power. The seemingly endless flood of names and numbers, the innumerable tales of heroism and cowardice, the continuous demonstrations of the storm's savagery, all add up to a compelling narrative, a hymn to the brute force of nature. The scenes of hundreds swimming through storm waves in downtown Providence, of thousands fighting back flood waters in New London, Conn., of train crews outracing deadly tidal waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland railroad tracks...