Word: ruthlessness
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...cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let?s have rage. What?s needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury?a ruthless indignation that doesn?t leak away in a week or two, wandering off into Prozac-induced forgetfulness or into the next media sensation (O.J. ? Eli?n ? Chandra ?) or into a corruptly thoughtful relativism (as has happened in the recent past, when, for example, you might hear someone say, ?Terrible what he did, of course, but, you know, the Unabomber does have a point, doesn?t he, about modern technology...
...never been found, despite numerous searches by his Penan and European friends. Nor has any trace been found of his 30-kg rucksack. When he vanished, some suspected foul play: Manser had fallen on the wrong side of the logging interests in Borneo?who can be ruthless. There was talk of a bounty on his head and suspiciously heavy movements of police and loggers in the area at the time of his disappearance. Malaysia's politicians were fed up with the troublesome foreigner. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad publicly complained of "white people (who) think we do not know...
...time of ZAZ's last directorial collaboration, Ruthless People in 1986, they had all matured. First, they refrained from including an exclamation mark in that film's title. Second, "we were all capable of directing a movie ourselves," says Jerry, who now runs Zucker Productions with his wife Janet. On their own, David directed the Naked Gun movies, and Abrahams regressed to unnecessary punctuation with the Hot Shots! flicks. Jerry, for his part, decided it was time to put the spoofs behind him. "I got tired of satire," he says. "It was fun, but I didn't feel like doing...
...fact when Yeltsin decided to attack the same building in 1993, he showed how easy it was if you were sufficiently ruthless. He had tanks shell it from a distance. And again, in that incident, he showed the importance of decisive leadership. Yeltsin had to pull himself out of profound, paralyzing depression in order in order to cajole military commanders into attacking, but he eventually scraped together the forces he needed. Well over100 people died in the attack, though no-one really remembers now and the world did not seem particularly concerned at the time...
...autobiography occurs in a different dimension, a different part of the mind, and, quite literally, in a different region of time. While autobiography demands artifice, it also requires introspection and an order of a ruthless candor. What would Franklin Roosevelt's autobiography have been like? Dodgey piffle, perhaps. King and poet have different roles to play...