Word: brutes
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...look.* David Hayes's is one. In his second New York exhibition, he proves convincingly that, at 33, he belongs in the top rank of important young sculptors. Hayes, an American, has a studio outside Paris, where he hammers and welds forged steel into mat-black shapes of brute strength. His works are small but weighty, simple but bursting with power. His Seated Beast, with only two legs, has a yowling, cavernous mouth for a head, and his armless Gladiator stares blindly from two huge orbital cavities...
...power blocking that once opened holes for the single wing's runners has also suffered. Defensive line-men are now bigger and faster than ever before, and many of them are specialists at their positions, making them hard to shove out of the way with brute force alone...
...local businesses in Harvey hire Negroes. And I understand Negroes can't get liquor licenses. Naturally they resent the fact that right across the street is a white man running a big liquor store, and he's got a prison record, and he's a big brute besides." Added Callahan: "CORE has complained about these things for months. The Negroes didn't get mad enough; then, the trouble was, they...
...They dog it along the rail, or bear out wide to get away from the pounding pack. "You just have to make 'em win anyway," he says. And in the early days, for Ussery that often meant flogging and kicking a horse to the finish line by brute force. Rage and frustration still get the better of him once in a while. At Aqueduct one race last week, he had the lead at the three-quarter-mile mark, and then the horse went into a dead fade as the rest of the field tore by. Ussery was still fruitlessly...
...dies despite her loving care-torn to pieces by a big yellow mongrel trained by the treacherous fur trader. In grief and fury Karana tracks the mongrel down and puts an arrow through him. But the brute, though deeply stricken, hangs onto life; and Karana, though rightfully revenged, begins by pitying and ends by nursing him. By the time he is well, she has come to love her enemy. Together they assail the seasons of their exile cheerfully, and make a life of what might otherwise have merely been a fate...