Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newman's hard-sell tactics have turned off some of the patrons who are most knowledgeable about the arts. His prose can be flamboyant or plain trashy. He once billed Cavalleria Rusticana as "hot-blooded romance, illicit love and violent vengeance, Sicilian style." But Newman is a superflack, not a philistine. He wants to make culture a pervasive American institution...
...into the interior, Salim becomes more desperate. He tries twice to rouse himself, via an affair and a flight to London where illusions of a Western civilized arcadia lie. But neither succeeds as a safety-value. Salim renounces all hope and returns to Africa, only to find that the violent abyss has widened...
...Sixteen out of every 100 couples have violent confrontations of one sort or another during the course of a year. In six of these cases there is severe kicking, biting, punching or hitting with objects. Almost four of every 100 wives are seriously beaten by their husbands...
...broken asphalt parking lot and peered into the dense forest beyond the barbed wire fence as raindrops splattered about them. Puddles. Lots of them. Cops and reporters, too. Not on mention an 80-per-cent complete atomic power plant. But where were the anti-nuclear protesters, the non-violent commandos who were planning to scale those eight-foot tall barriers and stage a mass-occupation...
Asked at her arraignment bearing how far she thought the protests would go, whether she thought they would remain non-violent, a middle-aged woman who had just joined the movement said," I don't know, but I'll do whatever it takes to stop that plant from opening...