Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Good fortune quickly ebbs, however, leaving illness and betrayal in its wake. Against the new background noise of blaring radios and L.A. street life, Enrique and Rosa slowly catch on to the different, yet equally ruthless, code of lower-class life in "El Norte." The city's glamorous women look tired and aloof throughout the film, but Rosa only begins to notice this towards the end. On her deathbed, after listening to her brother's cheery forecasts for their future, she finally breaks down and sobs, "Life here is very hard. We're not free...
...film version of the Pulitzer-prizewinning musical play that last year became the longest-running show in Broadway history. A sort of downbeat reworking of Busby Berkeley's 1933 movie 42nd Street, in which a member of the ensemble suddenly becomes a star, Chorus Line depicts the ruthless process of casting a Broadway musical; it evolved from the actual experiences of its first performers. Although even weeknight tickets to the show cost as much as $45, many of the people auditioning for the film version have seen it onstage as often as other people go to ball games: Suzette...
...backs, in the hope of further winnowing, Attenborough balks. He insists: "If we have any doubt, we say yes." As the day wears on, however, the producers' eyes look glazed, and they find it hard to be excited about anybody. The chatty humanity of the morning becomes almost ruthless efficiency. A group of 15 people who have been waiting several hours are hustled onto the stage, some with their coats still on. Within four minutes they are all being thanked for their time and urged out another door. As the production team members glance at one another in apparent...
...other recent event. After predicting the winner incorrectly, the networks received insult added to injury through Hart's record-breaking margin. It's simply impossible to conjecture that the networks did anything other than report the facts as they saw them; any other approach would be vulnerable to ruthless exposure by a competitor. And any media organization, however small, which had correctly predicted the return would have made the election scoop of the century...
...faults and failures of the Khomeini regime. The drastic deterioration in the economic conditions of life that has resulted from the reactionary policies of the regime are attributed to the war. Likewise, Khomeini's immense propaganda machine attributes the lack of political freedom, the atmosphere of terror and the ruthless suppressive measures that enforce the regime's hold on power to emergency conditions supposedly created...