Word: brutishness
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...hostages had been restrained in their comments to the ubiquitous TV cameras about their feelings toward the Amal militiamen holding them. Once freed, however, many of them began to vent their anger and bitterness, as well as resentment that their captors had been depicted as anything other than brutish fanatics. Some of the hostages distinguished between the original gunmen who hijacked the plane, thought to be from the fanatic Shi'ite Hizballah (Party of God), and the Amal militiamen who took control after the first two days. "Once the Amal came aboard, things seemed to settle down some," said Testrake...
...film that should be an assignment for VES 194. "Romantic Cinema," is Woody Allen's newest effort, The Purple Rose of Cairo (Harvard Square). It's your type of movie. Mother, with Mia Farrow laboring in squalor to keep herself and her brutish husband (Danny Aiello) alive, and Jeff Daniels swooping down off the screen to save her. Fred Astaire even makes a brief appearance...
...writing is also brutish, however. Although the authors keep their write-ups on the teams mercifully brief, one does get an opportunity to sample some truly pathetic prose...
...Nahal Hemar discovery should banish forever any popular notions that Neolithic man was brutish and dull. "He fashioned jewelry and elaborate textiles and traded to the north and south," declares Tamar Noy, a curator of prehistory at the museum. "These objects are so exquisite that they give us a new view of what our ancestors were like...
After a brief prologue--nasty, brutish, and short--we find ourselves in Stockton. Massachusetts in 1692, "at the height of the Puritan witch craze." Protagonist Nicholas Flatford (Jeff Rosen), a Puritan with a taste for sentiment and his own bad poetry, has just been given an ultimatum by Martha Coftin (Debra Staniunas), his something-more-than-shrewish wife: five days to clean up his act and cut out the poetry, or else. A reasonable request. "Can't you talk of something else besides the weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice...