Word: mercilessly
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...then Bobby is the hungry Brooklyn wolf. Fischer still plays with the merciless intensity of the onetime boy wonder who said, "I like to see 'em squirm." And not just when the world title is at stake. In international play, where brain-saving draws are a routine matter, Fischer is the only grand master who rarely agrees to settle for a tie game. Even when he is far ahead in a tournament and could coast, he usually answers a request for a draw with a rueful, smiling refusal and then fights on until that magic moment when...
...invigorating qualities. On the other hand, "I'm selfish," she admits, with an apologetic grin, but her eyes challenge any rebuttal of this self-analysis, "and I'm strong minded." "She's human as hell," a student tries to explain in the face of her intimidating vitae and potoriously merciless academic standards, but you couldn't mistake her for a soft-heeled humanist; she's really a tough...
...voter rebellion has considerable justification. The U.S. urgently needs radical reforms in the way that it collects, apportions and spends tax money. But for the moment, the taxpayer revolt is only tightening an already merciless squeeze on the budgets of most of the nation's 81,299 governmental units. At a time when public officials should be planning to finance the pollution-control, mass-transit and slum-rebuilding programs of the future, they are having to struggle to stretch present revenues to cover immediate spending needs. Increasingly, they are failing...
...city in the days before the election. They are a dubious form of political evangelism, costing millions of dollars, exhausting President and people alike. They may even be harmful politically. So many major stops are jammed into a day, and a President repeats himself like any other candidate. The merciless and omnipresent eyes and ears of TV often show him at day's end as a repetitive bore...
Some movies are so inventive and powerful that they can be viewed again and again and each time yield up fresh illuminations. Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is such a movie. Based on Anthony Burgess's 1963 novel of the same title, it is a merciless, demoniac satire of a near future terrorized by pathological teen-age toughs. When it opened last week, TIME Movie Critic Jay Cocks hailed it as "chillingly and often hilariously believable." Below, TIME'S art critic takes a further look at some of its aesthetic implications...