Word: vicious
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...things, even giant sea slugs, feed, feeding is their essence and teeth and hoofs and wings have all evolved from the millions of years of small bloods struggles Updike broadens this vision of vicious feeding when he suggests that "The spirit needs folly as the body needs food...
...side feels its security jeopardized by unfavorable trends in that balance, it is likely to ascribe the most sinister motives to its adversary and to take countermeasures it regards as corrective but that the other side regards as threatening. That is the dynamic of vicious cycles, escalating mutual suspicions and potentially disastrous miscalculations...
...heart is ripped out of his chest in a ritual sacrifice, and he is lowered alive into a pit of molten lava. In Gremlins, a fantasy co-produced by Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante, a boy's cuddly, otherworldly pet spawns a generation of vicious creatures that, in one scene, terrorize the boy's mother in the kitchen. She retaliates by churning up one gremlin in a food processor and exploding another in a microwave oven...
...loss of mutual resolve among nations that is such a tragedy. Perhaps this sense of purpose is still present under all the rhetoric and vicious attacks that go on among those countries that once stood together against Nazism...
...most unglamorous role ever offered to her, but that did not stop Farrah Fawcett, 37, from starring in The Burning Bed. The TV movie concerns the true story of Francine Hughes, who endured vicious beatings by her husband until she finally murdered him. Fawcett was up to the acting demands of the part, but transforming the blond beauty into a convincingly battered wife was no easy task. "Her features are absolutely perfect," observes Makeup Artist Fred Blau. "It's like putting your foot through a Rembrandt." To make the star considerably less perfect, Blau darkened her eyes, created bruises...