Word: cruelest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smoke, silence, emptiness and slow decay, an imperceptible leaching that was a strong smell long before it was a calamity. The knotting of the city's innards into dead hanks, not combustion, but blockage, the slowest cruelest death...
...Judy's) final hours. It was not long before many had forgotten that he had not been felled by the Watergate scandals but had pleabargained his office away in exchange for immunity from prosecution for having accepted cash payoffs during his years in public office. Agnew suffered with cruelest political fate: he was disgraced, then forgotten...
...cancer, but all of them are terminal cases. One is a hopeless alcoholic; another is drowning in a morbid, pervasive melancholia; still another, a boy of 19, has not only totaled his motorcycle but also his mind. Several are old, old men for whom life has become the cruelest possible bondage. The hospital can offer them everything except dignity...
...wars are cruel, but civil wars are the cruelest. A marriage in which love has turned to hate becomes a civil war. In this film, it is Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's basic contention that something in the institution of marriage curdles love and ferments hate. It is possible to deny the premise, but the picture defies refutation. This is a work of magnetic force, searing intelligence and an oppressive melancholy lightened by flashes of erotic ecstasy...
...unfavorable chemistry notwithstanding, the press gave Nixon generally fair coverage in his 1968 campaign, and considerable admiration during his first term. Even the cartoonist Herblock, long one of Nixon's cruelest antagonists, observed the traditional honeymoon accorded new Presidents by giving the man a decent shave. Nixon hardly reciprocated. He installed an arrogant press secretary who treated the press shabbily. He dispatched Spiro Agnew and other sappers to harass the enemy. Aides like Clay Whitehead and Charles Colson sought to stifle network commentary as unfair...