Word: harshness
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...aftermath of murder seemed much more problematical, and they still do. In 1907 a blond prostitute was found with her throat cut in a rented room in Camden Town. This killing, close to Sickert's London lodgings, gave him a subject. Through 1908-09, he painted a series of harsh, dark images of a naked woman on a bed and a clothed man -- shades of Manet's Dejeuner! -- glaring down at her. In L'Affaire de Camden Town, 1909, she seems to be alive but cowering from him; with its sexual frankness (disconcerting to taste in 1909), heavy claustrophobic patterning...
...time when Israel and the Palestinians are attempting to negotiate peace, Israel's harsh action has put the PLO and mainstream Palestinians in a difficult position. The action has frustrated and angered a people already grown restless by the lack of progress made during the peace talks and by the steady worsening of the situation in the Occupied Territories...
...Israel's harsh action, combined with the image of Hamas as the only group still actively struggling for Palestinian rights and frustration with the fruitless peace talks, has further contributed to Hamas' popularity. Time estimates that approximately 45 percent of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories support Hamas, but only 30 percent do so for ideological reasons. The remaining 15 percent see Hamas as an alternative to the PLO, whose peace negotiations have brought no positive results...
...concerns on Election Day. (Quite frankly, American Jews--more than 80% of whom voted for Bill Clinton--did not want four more years of Bush and his Israel-squeezing sidekick, anyway.) Bush remained firm and instead pardoned a man who helped to orchestrate Pollard's unduly harsh sentence...
Without this type of harsh penalty on the aggressors, Serbia will continue to use the same methods in other disputed areas, with horrible consequences for all of Europe. Milosevic needs to know that aggression has a price, and Vance and Owen seem incapable of teaching him. They have earned a large part of the blame for both the recent bloodshed and the bloodshed that is likely to come...