Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feud had ended in 1972 when the elder Leakey flew to Koobi Fora to spend an exciting evening with his son, examining fossils late into the night by the harsh light of a gas lantern. That night Louis predicted that Richard would find evidence of three hominid species at Turkana. A few weeks later, he died, unaware that events would prove him right. Says Richard: "I think his sheer dogged persistence?and his follow-through on ideas to the point where they were proved either right or wrong?was his greatest gift. In many ways, his greatest achievement...
...first time, we are too caught up in their unaffected eroticism to notice much else. Only after the lovers leave their vacation paradise does Goretta begin to reveal his hand: as null grows bored with the affair, The Lacemaker seamlessly goes from lush romance to harsh political parable. Like the French writer Guy de Maupassant, whom he quotes in the movie, the director is a master of sudden shifts in mood...
...time, other than immediate family. Their movements are restricted and they may not be quoted in the press. Individuals apprehended on suspicion of posing a threat to South Africa's security, under a new law passed last year, can be detained indefinitely without trial. Justifying the harsh steps, Kruger explained to the nation on a TV broadcast that the government had acted swiftly to defuse a dangerous "revolutionary climate," fueled by "a small group of anarchists." Pretoria, he vowed, would re-establish the "total stability" that preceded last year's bloody riots in Soweto...
...Salleh, a local chieftain of the Moro National Liberation Front, which has been fighting a civil war in the southern islands for nearly five years. Salleh had hinted that his 150 men were ready to join the government's side. As he greeted Bautista with a smile, a harsh voice shouted, "Dapal!" (Hit the dirt). Salleh dropped to the ground as some 150 M.N.L.F. troops stepped into the open and shot. Bautista and all but one of his men were killed instantly...
...coital bouts with the heroine provide Looking for Mr. Goodbar with its few insightful scenes. When this couple make violent love, we can begin to understand the complex erotic passions that draw Theresa to her self-destructive double life. The rest of the film's brutality-its harsh language, its vicious climactic murder scene-are merely heavyhanded manifestations of Brooks' moral-mongering. The audience, not to mention Diane Keaton and Judith Rossner, deserve greater rewards in exchange for the punishment. - Frank Rich