Word: graphically
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...Haditha revelations simply reinforced existing negative perceptions of the U.S. mission, and it's unlikely that even by throwing the book at the men responsible, the U.S. military will earn the goodwill of the civilian population - particularly the Sunnis, who were the victims in Haditha. What's more, graphic descriptions of U.S. soldiers allegedly gunning down innocents - 10 of them women and children - in an apparent frenzy of violent frustration at their inability to find an enemy camouflaging himself in the civilian population are unlikely to help raise the morale of a U.S. public grown weary of what their Commander...
...only if there is a coherent narrative motive. Otherwise, the film drifts into the horror genre where violence is composed as spectacle for shock value. “Flags of Our Fathers,” the Clint Eastwood historical drama about Marines at Iwo Jima, is possibly the most graphic war movie since “Saving Private Ryan.” But since the gore in both films finds its source in a historical event, the viewer doesn’t become skeptical or alienated when body parts start to fly. Gibson’s revisionist take on history...
...graphic accompanying the article should have said that 56.6 percent of Harvard faculty are off the tenure track, compared to 50.3 percent at Yale, 16.6 percent at the University of Pennsylvania, and 54.6 percent at private research universities nationwide...
...result, under the guidance of Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, was a creative thesis titled “’If Answerable Style I Can Obtain...’: An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost” — a film noir-style graphic rethinking of John Milton’s classic poem, which won Chiang a summa cum laude reading and a Hoopes Prize. Damrosch remembers Chiang as one of his all-time favorite students because of his “no bullshit” attitude and self-confidence, he says. Not knowing...
...brutally graphic bite into raw, dripping tapir testes, and I was caught somewhere between a grimace and a giggle. It was only a few minutes into Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto,” and never before had the epithet “ball-breath” been used quite so literally...