Word: brutes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...story begins with Sir Brute griping about his wife of two years; he claims she married him for money. Though she’s never done anything wrong exactly, he can no longer stand her presence, and drowns his sorrows in drink and bawdy revelry with a gang of unsavory courtiers...
...intimacies quickly unfolds. Peter Rini’s Ned Constant pursues a friendship with the unpalatable knight in hopes of getting closer to the beautiful Lady Brute, whom he has loved from afar since the day he first saw her—the day of her marriage to Sir Brute. Meanwhile Heartfree, played by Adam Dannheisser, scoffs at his friend’s romanticism—until he too finds himself in love with one woman and pursued by another—the self-absorbed and incessantly chatty Lady Fancyfull, hailed by all as the most ridiculous gentlewoman in town...
...unhappy instruction. That expedition's commander thought he went as a liberator and arrived with scant ground troops. The local leaders the British picked to rule were weak and derided as puppets. Iraqis rebelled with attacks that stunned the occupiers in their ferocity. Ultimately, the occupiers had to use brute military power to crush the insurgency, hoping that stories of men, women and children being killed indiscriminately wouldn't cause the public back home to lose its nerve. Quelling the dissent proved deadly for 2,200 British troops and some 10,000 Iraqis, and the country never did settle down...
...arts collective in our common room? Didn’t we know kind of a lot of punk songs? Couldn’t we quote Sylvia Plath to each other in flat voices—“Every woman adores a Fascist/ The boot in the face, the brute/ Brute heart of a brute like you”? Didn’t we construe practically everything ironically? Weren’t we post-angst, post-emotion...
...attempts to chase down a loose puck or receive a pass in between the blue lines and grabbing opponents with a free hand along the boards are the techniques most frequently listed under this label, and their elimination should benefit smaller, faster teams that emphasize skills over brute strength...