Word: pitilessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Bart Starr, the cool, competent Green Bay quarterback, led his rejuvenated Packers against Minnesota last week, he absorbed as pitiless a beating as any he has received in 14 years of N.F.L. play. The Packers never really got off the ground. Time after time Marshall and his fellow marauders-Gary Larsen, Alan Page and Carl Eller-blasted through the Green Bay line to dump Starr or force him to throw hurried, errant passes. Starr's longest completion of the day went for only 13 yds., and he was leveled eight times by the Viking line for a total...
Sculptor in Soil. In place of a plot, Jancso exhibits portraits of an embryonic police state, set against a pitiless sky and a plain so vast that it seems to show the curvature of the earth. In his cold eye, war is an aleatory art in which values are as random as bullets. A military band plays an exhilarating march; a moment later the tune is whistled by a doomed man. A woman is run, naked, through a line of whippers; her lover, unable to watch, jumps to his death. Other prisoners follow his example like an audience seeking exits...
...with money he has stolen, Jan buys passage on a vessel piloted by a fisherman friend. But if the fisherman is Peter, there is no Christ. -In a scene that seems less photographed than etched, the boat drifts through clutches of floating corpses; the sky and ocean are pitiless, and death is the only redemption...
Barely audible cries and the muffled thudding of fists came from a rented truck parked beneath a pitiless sun in San Antonio, Texas. Summoned to in vestigate, police smashed the truck's locked back door, peered inside and recoiled. Crammed into the airless, oven-hot space were 47 Mexican laborers. One was dead, two dying. Fifteen others had to be hospitalized for heat prostration. The truck driver had fled. For the hapless Mexicans, it was the end of a dream of jobs in Chicago as illegal wetback immigrants. Each had paid 1,250 pesos ($100) to be brought into...
THERE were two Robert Kennedys-the one who was loved and the one who was hated. To many, he was the relentless prosecutor, vindictive young aide to Joe McCarthy and pitiless interrogator of the racket-busting McClellan Committee, a cocksure combatant who was not too scrupulous about his methods. Many politicians and businessmen not only disliked him but also genuinely feared him for what he was and for what he might become. Not a few saw unprincipled ambition in every gesture he made and every step he took...