Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devil must have its "Damien"). Every ten minutes someone gets impaled, chucked out a window, or decapitated, the latter by a plate-glass window in a scene lingered over by the cameraman as though he were some kind of vampire. One moment of imagination: the prowl of a vicious wolf-dog from hell whose breathing is synchronized with one of Jerry Goldsmith's Latin chants. Gregory Peck is well-meaning, but as animated as a potted plant, and the rest of the cast is colorless until their respective bloody deaths. Why is it that these movies strive...
Somewhere deep in the stony, inhospitable Ogaden desert, a vicious war is being fought with sophisticated weaponry and ground troops made up largely of ill-trained and illiterate peasants. But while the outside world has been denied a look at the actual fighting, the devastation left in the wake of advancing and retreating armies is evident enough...
...superb playmaking of Paul Yeomalakis and Dale Valicenti, who had a goal and two assists apiece, the J.V. hockey team defeated Bowdoin 6-3 yesterday in a game punctuated by some vicious hitting from the boys from Maine...
Number two--John Havens vs. Frank Brosens: Havens, in a word, has been awesome against Princeton. As a freshman two years ago, he pulled the upset of the year by taking a five-game thriller from Princeton's undefeated captain at number two; last year, he fought off a vicious crowd and a tough opponent in Bill Fisher to win in four games at number three...
South of the Mason-Dixon line, the onslaught of winter was no less vicious. A sleet storm came roaring out of Texas at midweek. In such cities as Birmingham and Memphis, the storm disrupted traffic and closed down schools and businesses. In Atlanta, where there are still fresh memories of a 1973 ice storm that downed trees and knocked out power lines for a week, the ominous reports emerging from Alabama and Tennessee sent downtown workers hurrying home early...