Word: ruthlessness
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...turned more facetious, the special effects toward the shoestring spectacular. Freddy now delivers double entendres like a James Bond boogeyman and devises custom-made tortures like the wardens of Room 101 in 1984. But he still represents the thing teens love to hate: Dad. "Freddy is the most ruthless primal father," says Craven. "The adult who wants to slash down the next generation." No keys to the car, Son. And no clean beaches, no safe streets, no safe sex, no noble politicians. Just a zillion-dollar debt for you to pay, and a nuclear winter that lasts forever. Adults ruined...
...standing down here in this building ((the White House)) when I heard about the White House tapes, and felt -- betrayed means that somebody owes me something and thus -- and I think it's broader than that." CIA covert actions do not arouse the same misgivings in this occasionally, dutifully ruthless...
...rumble. Nixon, in the flush of victory, was going to do wonders, mainly by firing or demoting almost everyone in sight -- but not George Bush. "He'd do anything for the cause," Nixon privately told John Ehrlichman. The qualification for service in the second term was spelled out with ruthless clarity: "Not brains, loyalty...
...pages; $15.95), a snake-mean slice of South Florida lowlife that might finally have brought overdue recognition if its author had not died in March of this year. Haitian illegal immigrants and Cuban Marielitos are among the supporting victims and sleaze artists in a multiplot story featuring a ruthless but effective cop whose beat is long- unsolved murders. A.E. Maxwell's equally colorful Just Enough Light to Kill (Doubleday; 254 pages; $16.95) blends Soviet high-tech espionage with striking tableaux of Latin American immigrants paying a few hundred dollars to be herded like cattle across the U.S. border and Hong...
TONY Montana, the Cuban drug leader made famous by Al Pacino in Scarface, is the foremost example of Hollywood's currently favored stereotype. Montana is cold and ruthless. He sniffs everything from cocaine to slush puppies. And, of course, his accent is so thick that even a chainsaw couldn't affect...