Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House, fears that Clinton's health-care bill will become more vulnerable to attack -- wrongly, in her view -- as too expensive and too likely to promote a growth of government bureaucracy. On state and local levels at least, charges of excessive spending and too much bureaucracy have been proving lethal...
...lures them to his home with all their valuables, administers a deadly "vaccination," and burns the bodies in a basement incinerator. Patient after patient puts his trust in the doctor only to find himself waiting, in a tiny room filled with the belongings of other victims, for the lethal injection to take its toll...
Soon enough the protagonists have acquired heavy weapons and are going at each other as people do in films produced by Joel Silver, he of the Die Hards and the Lethal Weapons -- i.e., frequently, spectacularly, preposterously. Stallone and Snipes both play this nonsense tongue-in-cheekily. Sandra Bullock has an attractive naivete as a scholarly policewoman who hangs out with Sly. But ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion. It is also undercut by casting virtually all the psychopathically murderous criminals as minority-group members. A little political correctness in that...
...carnage on that leafy street was another link in a chain of bloody attacks that has swept over Egypt for the past 19 months. A shadowy coalition of Islamic fundamentalist groups has proved its willingness to use any means, no matter how lethal, to overthrow the secular government of President Hosni Mubarak, a key ally of the U.S. In response, the Cairo government and its security forces have shown they will raid, arrest and hang as many militants as they think it will take to stamp out the insurrection...
...disappeared, replaced by sitcoms, magazine shows and "soft" dramas like L.A. Law and Northern Exposure. Violence is largely confined to a few reality shows, Cops, America's Most Wanted, and true-crime TV movies -- which are abundant but whose violence looks positively prim beside the brutality of any Lethal Weapon sequel or Schwarzenegger extravaganza...