Word: ruthlessness
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...Democratic Congressmen could be elected. Then there was his slowness on civil rights, which so exasperated those who went South with SNCC and those who heard about their troubles. There was Teddy, who snatched the 1962 Senatorial election, to everyone's great disgust, and Bobby the cold, Bobby the ruthless, trampling on civil liberties...
Though crudely plotted, the movie offers some bruising glimpses of the drug addict's world. Director Mitchell turns his camera into streets alive with the ruthless, luckless desperation of hung-up types waiting to score. There is powerful understatement in an eerily casual police raid on a pad full of bleary, turned-on junkies, or in Sánchez' dry heaves when he goes to collect a shipment of "stuff" and finds it sharing a coffin with a stiff. Heroína is not much fun to sit through, but the best of it throws a cold clear...
...clear lead. A medieval historian whose intimacy with centuries of human experience has taught him to "question the certitudes of people," he continually argues that "knowledge must be humanized." Yet as administrator he holds the reins so taut that some faculty members call him "autocratic" or even "utterly ruthless...
Died. Zachary Scott, 51, character actor, a mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...
...kind of action chorus to comment on the development of the drama; his staging of a symbolic game of drunken blindman's buff in Hamp's cell before he is executed; the awful detail of Hamp's death, which underscores the movie's ruthless dissection of Britain's caste system...