Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first Gulf War was as relentless and predictable as the tides--waves of warplanes, followed by thousands of U.S. troops, destroyed much of the Iraqi military. The second Gulf War, if it comes, would be more like the Big Bang--hundreds of towering explosions all across Iraq all at the same time. The Pentagon buzz word for this is simultaneity. The plan would have unprecedented numbers of smart, satellite-guided bombs attack a multitude of targets over a great sweep of territory, swiftly followed by U.S. troops seizing key objectives...
Harvard even had a power-play opportunity only a minute after the goal. But the Crimson failed to convert under the relentless pressure of the Big Green penalty-killing unit...
...Crimson, however, failed to sustain any consistent attack. The Big Green was faster on Sunday. It made crisper passes. It converted its chances. It broke from its zone quickly and efficiently. It forechecked aggressively. It applied relentless pressure to the Harvard offense. It murdered the Crimson with its transition game...
...cultural attitudes changed in the '90s, so we knew we could give the film a certain urgency, make you feel that you're involved in this situation." The pups with pistols mature like rabies infections inside the film's gradually darker and tighter photography. Yet if the violence seems relentless, it's more tragic than gratuitous. The actors, many of whom were amateurs recruited and trained on site, give remarkable performances reminiscent of Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned) - most memorably in a scene in which a hardened gangbanger forces a child prot...
...Well, here is the real stuff. Not a neo-noir homage, but the genuine india-ink original, "Nightmare Alley" combines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, "Freaks" with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel. As adapted by Spain, "Nightmare" pulls you into a secret world, with its own colorful language. "You can go back to carny and find another kootch show. But I want to have big dough," is a typical line, delivered when Molly hesitates on trying out the spiritualist "dodge." Throughout the book you get a privileged inside look at the tricks...