Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of it is likely to arouse a lot of anger and resentment from women and men alike. The anger that this book draws forth from women is the anger of slow recognition of the truth of what the authors are saying: that rape is not just a violent attack to be feared from hostile strangers on the street, and to be guarded against by mace and midnight escorts. It is consistent with a pattern of behavior, beginning with the hundreds of "little rapes" that women face every day, and ending, in its most hideous form, with the actual physical...
...forego the man's traditional dowry payment to marry him. Ossman wants Bahar, not only for his own gratification but for work in his fields. Once Hassan is in jail, Ossman forces himself on Bahar. The film moves slowly towards the brothers' inevitable face-off and an abrupt, violent denoument...
...ministers and parents who object to texts that include passages by authors from E.E. Cummings and Sigmund Freud to Dick Gregory and Eldridge Cleaver. Under particular attack are selections that appear to challenge a literal interpretation of the Bible or are otherwise antireligious, anti-American or too violent...
Much of the play's difficulty lies in its refinement. In Pinter's earlier plays, such as The Homecoming, the conflicts are manifested in awful acts of passion, power, and violence. The struggles in Old Times are as profound, as wrenching as ever; only, they are not so violent. They are enacted on a more poetic plane, and words are the chosen weapons. Pinter now knows that he can say what he wants to without raising his voice...
...some knowledge of the history of agricultural developments in the Golden State, of its undemocratic system of land ownership and farming. The story of migratory labor from the early Chinese to the Mexicans is as old as California itself. Workers' exploitation, racism, red-baiting, wage-fixing by agricultural employers, violent repression of the civil rights of farm workers with the active collaboration of the police and the courts, tax-payers' subsidies used to boost the profits of landlords and agribusinesses, from the story of Owens Valley ("Chinatown") to the West Side swindle and the importation of bracers, the bloody battles...