Word: ruthlessness
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...film has its more serious adventures, like that of Montoya, a stereotypical Spaniard played by Mandy Patinkin. Montoya seeks to avenge the death of his father and is involved in a ruthless search for the six-fingered killer. When he finds him, he intimidates his prey by emulating a broken record. "I am Inigo Montoya," he drones repeatedly. "You killed my father. Prepare to die." This attempt at humor, like many of the film's "comic" touches, entirely misses its mark...
John Paul referred to Jews as "fellow believers" and spoke of the Holocaust as a "ruthless and inhuman" effort to exterminate specifically European Jews. "Never again!" the Pontiff declared, repeating a common Jewish phrase referring to the Nazi era. He also endorsed Catholic-Jewish programs to educate youngsters about the Nazi atrocities. Said Rabbi James Rudin, interreligious affairs director of the American Jewish Committee: "The healing is under...
...Kennedy is portrayed as the kindliest member of that clan, willing to meet with a friend of O'Neill's who wanted to bid on a large construction job overseas even though the man had not been an early Kennedy supporter. But Robert Kennedy is depicted as ungracious and ruthless. "To me, he was a self- important upstart and a know-it-all. To him, I was simply a street-corner...
...Ritchie's ruthless desire for stardom and his utter contempt for all things that threaten the American pop-culture status quo which makes La Bamba so contemptible...
...ruthless competition that has produced such cheap rides for consumers has inspired a dozen airline mergers in which rabble-rousers like People Express have been swallowed up. The six largest carriers, which controlled 76% of the U.S. market in 1978, now have about 81% and are expected to get 90% by 1990. Large combined airlines command so much market share at some airports that the carriers may be tempted to raise prices with virtual impunity. At least three carriers control more than 80% of the business in their main hubs: Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis, TWA in St. Louis and USAir...