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Angry crowds blocked streets and stoned a bus. Vandals painted swastikas and vicious slogans on houses and cars and even on the home of a government minister. One message, scrawled on a wall in a prosperous neighborhood, suggested that the area's residents be sent "to Auschwitz and Treblinka," two of the most notorious Nazi death camps of World...
...collapse, combined with the erosion of the tacit, increasingly fragile regulation of offensive weapons that now exists, would very likely mark the end of arms control and the beginning of a new round in the arms race. This might be characterized by a double helix of two intertwined vicious spirals, one in offensive and the other in defensive weapons. What a double jeopardy that would be. And what a dramatic chart for Reagan to study a year or so from...
...fine acting cannot hide the fact that Brimstone and Teacle lacks the cardinal British virtue of propriety: it becomes incongruous and off-putting rather than truly thought-provoking. In the end, it's like watching a Sid Vicious sneer slowly curling the stiff upper lip under the black bowler hat of English tradition...
Beyond all the square rings and vicious circles, beneath every blob of nose and billow of scar tissue, there is a common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...
...Boxing is a most vicious business," said Mack Lewis, a Baltimore trainer. "Mr. Mack" is one of the least vicious men in boxing. So many fight people are gentle. That's part of the paradox. "It's vicious," he repeated, "but I just happen to be a person who likes boxing. I can't explain it. No, I don't mind talking about Ernie, because I never for a moment forget Ernie anyway...