Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible that William Lear's steam-turbine car may solve the problem or that people will settle for small, light electric putt-putts before they choke on their own exhaust, but not likely. In Los Angeles there is just no replacement for that mammoth steel hunk, that roaring brute car that shrinks the land, expands your reach with churning heady acceleration, burst of speed, smell of rubber, and sends you floating dangerously at dizzy speeds, free and loose and careless, across the land. ·: Timothy Tyler
There's still more. Robert Duvall, rivalling Robert Ryan as America's most underrated actor, is the Corleone's German-Irish lawyer: Sterling Hayden, brute incarnate, a guinea-baiting crooked mick cop; and a supporting cast of lesser-knowns and has-beens with the right number of stitches in their faces and cricks in their walks...
What Kazan's previous work lacked in depth, it made up-at its best -in brute energy. In Waterfront, say, or A Face in the Crowd, he keyed the action at such a pitch of intensity that the films seemed to gain substance from sheer force. This technique, which amounts to a diversionary tactic, becomes transparent in The Visitors. Kazan raises a lot of significant issues, then exploits them without truly engaging them. The Visitors makes one wonder, in fact, if he ever really has engaged them. ∙Jay Cocks It is no surprise to find another Kazan...
...Pierre. The Big Samoan. All-State shotputter, the Brute! At first he tries to hide! You can't hide an elephant in the bullrushes...
...system of this University is that of Henry Kissinger, Samuel Huntington, John Dunlop, B.F. Skinner, and the other theorists of social manipulation who lurk around William James and Littauer. In the traditional sense, they are not values at all. For what binds these men together is an ethic of brute competence--a belief that they are members of an intellectual elite which is more clearly fitted to make the crucial decisions in American life than any other individual or group in the country. It is this, an absolute confidence in the intellectual and moral fitness of the A students...