Word: ruthlessness
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...would-be adolescent punks sporting black leather, spikes and the latest in hair design and coloring. The pit is a hangout, and it's nothing like the IHOP or the yogurt store you liked to dawdle in after school. This is a real urban joint, the territory of ruthless teen-age druggies and anarchists. Or so you think...
...movement. Their huge purchases of food, liquor and clothing in sizes much too large for themselves suggested that they had company in the house. Butts of Winston cigarettes in the trash led the detectives to believe that the guest might be none other than the group's elusive and ruthless founder, Abimael Guzman, who went underground in the late 1970s. When the cops finally stormed the house, they found to their amazement no bodyguards or caches of weapons -- just an overweight and sickly terrorist leader. Almost immediately, the invincible "Presidente Gonzalo," as Guzman has called himself, surrendered without a fight...
...government performs. The conditions that gave rise to the insurgency back in the 1970s -- poverty, injustice, deep resentment over racial and class distinctions -- still prevail. Until Fujimori finds a more stable, equitable, democratic course, there will be impoverished Peruvians willing to subscribe to an alternative vision, no matter how ruthless or violent...
...write a best seller about his experience. But Christian Vincent's LA DISCRETE is no frivolous American sex comedy; it is French, in the best sense of the word. With breathless poise, the script by Vincent and Jean-Pierre Ronssin juggles cruelty and gaiety, revealing modern man as a ruthless appraiser auditioning women for his imaginary harem. Hollywood wouldn't know what to do with a film so airy, so grave. Poetry is what gets lost in transatlantic remakes...
...dawning on an increasingly militant Mandela and others is that De Klerk, despite his reforms, is not intent on securing justice and freedom for all; if that were true, he would be doing more to end the township violence. Instead, they believe, De Klerk has revealed himself as a ruthless practitioner of realpolitik, determined to preserve decisive white power and privilege...