Word: coldbloodedness
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How far d'ye have to go to get past everyone else?" asks Jim Newman, an Irish immigrant just a few years off the boat in the second decade of the 19th century. We've seen his type many times before: one of those restless individualists who helped settle the...
But in a nation where nearly three of four people support the death penalty and far fewer than one in four is a devout Catholic, another sermon is unlikely to change many minds. Worse, the pope's words were further undermined by his actions. Both in person and through an...
Civil rights activists "made coldblooded political calculations about how to conduct their affairs," Chatfield said.
He called Horton a "coldblooded killer" and said he had broken into the home of a Maryland couple, Cliff and Angie Barnes, torturing her and threatening to kill them both.
Directed by Robert Greenwald (whose credits include the fine 1982 TV film In the Custody of Strangers), the movie avoids both sentimentality and sententiousness. Its portrait of a lower-middle-class marriage is as incisive and coldblooded as anything TV has shown. Yet the violence is frequently underplayed to good...