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...reporters did not find evidence of widespread corruption, nor did their series lead to indictments or inspire government investigations. "But we uncovered a dark and murky area," says Fanning. "There is an aura of brute strength in the Teamster leaders that tends to inspire fear. By making the borders of Teamster power more visible, we made it easier to contain...
...agrees to marry Arthur, and Stomil (effectively portrayed by Tom Champion) also finds his orchestrated chaos turned to order by his son. Arthur finally convinces his father to assert his masculinity in a conventional, gun-toting way, but soon brute force supplants indoctrination in the son's effort to use "tradition" as the key to the future. Once the family agrees to the traditional marriage and accepts "order," Arthur begins to seek other answers; from "order" he shifts to "death," and then to "power...
...while Robin Lothrop, a Radcliffe varsity oarswoman, points out that the erg "can only measure one's brute strength and not one's rowing ability," the waves of its psychological impact are felt throughout both Weld and Newell boathouses...
...Millet, art is slavish copying of nature. He lights his lantern and goes looking for cretins. . .imagine a monster with no skull, the eye extinguished by an idiot's squint, straddling in the middle of a field like a scarecrow. No spark of intelligence humanizes this resting brute. Has he been working or murdering...
Traces and refinements of all those influences are still present in her work, but she unites them with carefree ease, as if the connections were there before she made them. Her humor is startling and raucous, but always purposeful. The comedy complements, never contradicts, the brilliant brute force of her movie...