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Coercion and the use of force have been part of the American character since settlers started moving West at the end of the 18th Century. Gentility is not usually an acceptable approach to settling differences in the United States. That may account for the large amount of violent crime here compared with other developed countries. In some states pick-ups still sport bumper stickers supporting capital punishment...
...cancer with my mind—very Chinese. Then I moved it.” The film’s absurdity is perfectly exemplified in the scene that follows: a shot of Mr. Lolly coughing up a brownish-orange tumor in his bathroom. Likewise, the unidentified and aimlessly violent homeless man who chases Brian throughout much of the movie seems to be more a metaphor for Brian’s demons of insecurity than any real person.The film thus touches on a kind of magical realism in dealing with chance and control—and perhaps, for the success...
...definitely the best time we’ve played Boston,” says Brian Thompson of the Connecticut band Dead Uncles, whose Friday set got the crowd slam dancing and moshing with enthusiasm. But this wasn’t the brutal, violent moshing featured on the notorious DVD “Boston Beatdown,” which focused on a different hardcore scene that many on RH deride as “bro-core.” RH comper Jacob N. Augenstern ’10 spent the set moshing with and leaping on a local punk rocker...
...taken many years for Mexico to finally make that admission, decades in which the country's powerful and violent drug cartels have been allowed to terrorize far too many neighborhoods in too many cities like Jurez. Summoning his army to fill in for unreliable cops, Mexican President Felipe Caldern has brought the fight to the gangs, but their furious backlash has left more than 7,000 Mexicans murdered since the start of last year - almost 2,000 in Jurez alone. Still, through the fog of the drug war, especially on the bloodied border, it has become clearer...
...result of his bleak youth in a Japanese prison camp, Ballard, who died on April 19 at 78, was convinced that 20th century life was a frail shell of pretense over strong, dark, violent impulses. His prose had a lucid, often clinical air, but his characters were weird iconic figures lost in their obsessions over sex, drugs, media, massive disasters, car crashes, dead pop stars, hydrogen bombs and fatal medical experiments...