Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This film could easily have been released during the 1950s, when sanitary mega-historical Hollywood epics were the norm. In fact, Far and Away features an elaborate recreation of the Oklahoma land rush, when settlers launched a mad, ruthless wagon and horse race across the western prairie to claim free plots of land offered by the U.S. government...
...featuring schizophrenic cats, bats and penguins, our story's main characters are refreshingly one-dimensional. Shannon is headstrong. Joseph is a doer. Shannon's Irish fiance is an evil nincompoop. Shannon's parents are rich and silly. The rich Irish-Americans who help Joseph and Shannon are corrupt and ruthless...
This glimpse of Yeltsin, the team manager, coping with ordinary affairs of state, is in marked contrast to the larger-than-life image of the Russian leader that the world came to know during last August's putsch. He displayed ruthless daring again last December, when he delivered the political coup de grace to Gorbachev and to the empire he ruled. But Yeltsin has been dogged by one persistent doubt: Could he transform himself from a defiant leader of the opposition, bent on destroying the old order, into a competent statesman capable of building...
...English fascists to the Ceausescu and Marcos regimes. Yet it is entirely faithful to the politics and psychology of Shakespeare's text. No production in memory has better evoked the terrifying instability of this buccaneer world. Rather than the embodiment of motiveless malignity, Richard is simply a skillful and ruthless practitioner of the techniques of his backstabbing times. While invested by McKellen with all the understandable self-pity of a man whose mother reviled him from birth for his physical deformities and who contemplates death in the certainty that no living creature will mourn him, this Richard is no less...
...hierarchy in Stambolic's wake, succeeding him as director of the state-owned industrial gas conglomerate Tehnogas, as Belgrade chief of the Communist Party and eventually as boss of the Serbian Communist Party. When the time came to slough off his mentor in late 1987, he did so with ruthless precision. By 1989 he was the unchallenged president of Serbia and today presides over what is left of Yugoslavia: Serbia, Montenegro and the two provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina...