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...show and her hepped-up drummer - are sharply sketched, with lots of oblique camera angles and warning shadows. The men waiting for Scott when he arrives home don?t bother to introduce themselves; are they thugs, or unknown suitors for Mrs. H.? They are detectives of the brutish sort Woolrich often painted: the menacing fatso (Thomas Gomez) and the wise-cracking sadist (Regis Toomey). Gomez: ?Your wife was strangled with one of your ties.? Toomey: ?Yeah. Knotted so tight it had to be cut loose with a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...Woolrich?s killer was the best friend of two of the men; in the film (where he?s played by Jean-Claude Brialy) his function is merely to cast a net of suspicion on the bride. [SPOILER] In the film, the killer is one of the group of five (brutish Daniel Boulanger), who is put in jail before Julie can kill him. Julie materializes at the artist?s funeral, is arrested and jailed. In prison, she is assigned kitchen duty, and commits her ultimate murder just out of camera range in the final shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...voluntarily come back [to detention]," he told an astonished Schneider. In addition to helping Saddam hide a fortune that U.S. investigators think could be anything from $2 billion to $7 billion or more, Barzan served from 1979 to 1983 as head of Iraqi intelligence, an organization notorious for its brutish tactics. Indict, a British human rights group, claims it can produce up to 30 witnesses to support various allegations against Barzan. Among them: he helped direct the murder of thousands of rebellious Iraqi Kurds in 1983, and he personally visited beatings, electroshock and executions on Iraqi prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The IRS Takes On Saddam's Kin | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...leaders are as ignorant of and unconcerned about protecting the cultural heritage of the countries we invade as they seem to be, [judging] from Rumsfeld’s contemptuous and brutish response, then it is precisely the duty of academics to try and point out to them what they have done,” Thomas wrote in an e-mail...

Author: By Lindsey E. Mccormack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ancient Treasures Lost | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...name of a beloved, scruffy pooch who belongs to Carthusians Cockcroft, an aging, gay, composer who has retired, sad and alone, to the Umbrian countryside, where he boozes and listlessly cruises for some thrill to replace the boy in silver shorts who broke his heart. When a young, brutish (and dog-hating) man known only as the Bosnian comes to stay, Cockcroft foolishly agrees to abandon the dog in Rome. Trekking home to his master, Timoleon Vieta, "with eyes as pretty as a girl's," charms food, ear tickles and hapless, bizarre love stories out of the strangers he meets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Life as a Dog | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

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