Word: harshness
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...were the harsh, bridge-burning proclamations that rang across the country as the midterm campaigns went down to the wire. In fact the 11th-hour tactics -- as well as their implication for the next Congress -- seemed destined only to make voters angrier. On Halloween, Bill Clinton launched an eight-day, scare-out-the-vote tour, arguing that the Republicans would do everything from closing Yellowstone National Park to slowing racial progress. His favorite gambit was to claim at nearly every stop that Republicans wanted to cut the benefits of Social Security recipients by $2,000 each. However improbable -- and hypocritical...
...sounds at first like another cruel tale from the world of corporate layoffs. Young IBM personnel specialist, 36, loses his job last July in cutbacks at the troubled computer giant. In dismay over leaving IBM -- the company where both his parents spent their careers -- young man plunges into the harsh job market. But there the miraculous happens: after a flurry of interviews, he is hired by Electronic Payment Services, a start-up Delaware company that processes credit-card transactions, for substantially more than his old salary. "I never knew how marketable I was," says Peter Dychkewich, the hero of this...
...camera is a living, prowling creature of the inner and outer English lanscape. Interior shots are filmed in warm, sepia-toned pigments that highlight the humanity, as well as the coarseness, of English life. Similarly, the film-maker captures the indifferent cruelty--tooth and claw--of nature with cold, harsh shots. From the panoramic sweets, the camera always returns to the pockmarked faces of individuals in the crowd. This is a living portrait of England, from the impoverished riff-raff to the royal...
...took my father from my life/ took my sister and brothers, oh," O'Connor howls. She also bares her fangs in a potent, political rap number called Famine: "I see the Irish/ As a race like a child/ that got bashed in the face." In addition to these harsh tracks, however, Universal Mother does have many gentle moments, including a delicate acoustic version of the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain's composition All Apologies...
...environmental damage could be devastating. Says Warner Chabot, an official with the Washington-based Center for Marine Conservation: "If the oil enters the Pechora River and flows into the Barents Sea, it will destroy wetlands, salmon runs and breeding grounds for shorebirds." Conditions in the Arctic are so harsh that plants and animals already live on the edge of survival. It can take decades for a tree to grow just a few feet, and tire tracks in tundra vegetation may persist for up to 100 years...