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...brute force of the presidency is still astonishing. During Richard Nixon's absence in the Middle East, Washington almost subsided into a Southern city stricken with the last days of spring. Then he came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Consuming Pursuit of Power | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

Chapman's directorial talents emerge as he harnesses the brute power of the hulking Jon Epstein. The director bottles Epstein into the cold and calculating Undershaft of this second act. In this section we hate this mild-mannered munitions manufacturer who wants to donate his blood-stained profits to the sweet cause of salvation...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Bringing in the Sheaves | 5/10/1974 | See Source »

Five minutes after the fight started, Norton was sprawled across that canvas in a daze. Nonviolent George Foreman dispatched Norton just as he had Joe Frazier and 38 other opponents -with brute force. Stalking Norton like a boxing Frankenstein, Foreman tossed aside his opponent's punches as though they were irrelevant and delivered brutal blows to his body and head. Early in the second round he landed one below Norton's heart. "I heard him grunt," said Foreman later, "and I knew I had him." He finished the challenger with a volley of uppercuts and right-left combinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five-Minute Massacre | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

Leopold Bloom (for it is he) stands silent, with bowed head before those young guileless eyes. What a brute he had been! At it again?...She walked with a certain quiet dignity characteristic of her but with care and very slowly because...

Author: By Lawton F. Grant, | Title: Celluloid Monarch Notes | 3/28/1974 | See Source »

When spectators saw that they and athletes have similar lives, fan involvement increased. The increased fan identification with the players led to the bottle-throwing incident in Shea Stadium during last season's N.L. playoffs. Poor little Bud Harrelson had to be protected from the big brute, Pete Rose, and bottles were a handy weapon...

Author: By Richard W. Edleman, | Title: Out in Left Field | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

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