Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Roger Ebert put it: "No attempt is made to get inside the mind of this complex man, Guevara. We are told he was a medical student, suffered from asthma, was more ruthless than Castro, was the real brain behind the operation. Big deal. ... When we aren't getting newsreels, we're getting routine footage of guerrilla clashes in the jungle. ... All this movie inspires toward the Cuban Revolution is excruciating boredom..." He wrote this in 1969, in a review of the flop Hollywood bio-pic Che!, with the not-very-Latin Omar Sharif as Guevara. Yet most of Ebert...
...good bet the private Obama feels the way a lot of his supporters do: like sending Ken Starr a fan note. For many Obama activists, Clinton's brass-knuckles campaign confirmed everything they had always suspected about Hillary and her husband: that they're cynical and ruthless, the detritus of an era in which Democrats sold out their ideals to get elected. Obama's backers generally feel about the Clintons the way Reaganites felt about Gerald Ford and the way beer aficionados feel about Bud Light: that by compromising core principles, they watered down the brand...
...world, that eating colored chalk does not give you fever (“nothing happened to us except we peed in color, my pee was on the reddish side and Szabi’s was greenish”). It is this contrast of childhood innocence against ruthless violence that makes “The White King” interesting.“The White King” offers a fascinating and terrifying display of how a national philosophy of violence manifests itself in all facets of life. Just as the state throws into a labor camp anyone who, like Djata?...
...unyielding length. She could feel her own body quiver, as though she had lost control. He held her against him for an instant without letting her feet touch the ground. Their eyes were locked together, and in his hazel-flecked gaze she saw a smile dissolve into the ruthless determination of a predator. Deliberately, tantalizing, he let her feet touch the ground. Still he did not release her. Felicity, her whole body trembling, tangled her fingers in his hair and pressed herself even closer. Her eyes closed, and she inclined her lips in invitation...
...questions in Zimbabwe is always, what is going on in "Uncle Bob's" mind. What do you make of him? Bob prompts two conflicting emotions. We want to regard him as a father figure, as a liberation hero. But he is also a ruthless tyrant and dictator who has brought economic decay. I think, now, that people will always remember this election. Bob has failed, and he is betraying the aspirations of the liberation struggle. His legacy is being affected...