Word: gutting
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...what drives the Woo fan club mad, in both Bel Air and Brockton, is the one thing Woo can't get away with in the US: over-the-top, mind-bending, gut-wrenching, only-expressible-with-hyphenation violence. Woo's 1989 film "The Killer" features scores of deaths, each carried out with a dozen bullets. Reviewers enjoy comparing Woo's 1990 "A Bullet in the Head" with Michael Cimino's similarly Vietnam-themed "The Deer Hunter" and fliply deeming the latter "a Disney romp...
...huge bass line and bottomless saxophones back up Richards and the unidentified female vocalist who sings the high notes. Standing in for the honky-tonk harmonica from the original studio version is a gut-wrenching menace that can barely shriek loudly enough to be audible over the constant pounding of the bass, drums and Richards' amazingly continuous guitar choruses...
...made it through that night and the nights after that, returning to the keyboard to somehow reach deep inside my gut and spin out words I never knew I could write...
...life-threatening shot through the gut "intensified my feelings about life and death matters," Boright said...
...political acumen than to the internal and external forces that make Congress the great, gaudy institution it is. As Republican Senator Alan Simpson put it, looking ahead to more fights yet over the upcoming Clinton health-care reform package, "It's what we used to call in football 'gut-check time...