Word: mercilessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They are merciless little witnesses, like children. They reveal whatever is obsessive, mutable, intimate and experimental in an artist's work...
...Palm Beach, Fla., hotel suite two weeks ago, his uncle Senator Edward Kennedy issued a statement expressing the family's grief and final hope: "With trust in God, we all pray that David has finally found the peace that he did not find in life." But the merciless public attention that tormented the third son of the slain Senator Robert F. Kennedy has intensified since the young man's death...
These questions are raised most urgently by the persistent victims of the political flip-flops: the 20 million Chinese who by virtue of being educated are considered to be "intellectuals." Though the new regime is undoubtedly less merciless than Mao's, it has shown a frightening propensity for relapsing into violent bouts of puritanism and dogmatism. In 1979 Deng released the country from the cultural straitjacket of the Mao era, admitting Shakespeare and Updike, Mickey Mouse and Muhammad Ali, the Beatles and the Boston Symphony. In the following year, however, he endorsed a brutal backlash. By 1981 leftist ideologues were...
Wickes. It was plainly a job for Ming the Merciless, a.k.a. Sanford Sigoloff, 53. He earned his Flash Gordon nickname the hard way: turning around ailing companies by ruthlessly cutting, cutting, cutting...
...Ming the Merciless fired nearly a quarter of Wickes' 40,000 employees. He sold off 15 money-losing operations, such as North American Video and Wickes Leasing, which had been added during the fat growth years of the 1960s...