Word: raping
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...first hour of the film, adolescent protagonist Alex and his gang ravage a futuristic England, rape, vandalize, and murder. They are complete scoundrels, not redeemed by mutual esteem or sympathy for the unfortunate. But they are so vital and exuberant, and Kubrick is so technically masterful that, despite one's moral abhorrence, one cannot help but sympathize. One giggles...
...attorneys for California, Georgia and Texas, who are arguing the case before the Supreme Court-maintain that the ban on cruel and unusual punishment is meant simply to govern excessive or inherently cruel penalties. To these men, the death penalty is neither-at least for murder or rape, the main offenses for which it is now invoked...
...educated guessers predict that the Supreme Court is not likely now to decree the arrival of that day-at least for murder -though death for rape may fall...
Pimps and whores, hired killers and psychosadists, news vendors and bar bums, "rape-os" and cops-all move in and out of Johnson's scene, rendered without apology or moral judgment. Unlike writers who have never been there, Johnson has no need to sensationalize the seamy edge of society. In taut, frosted gray prose that is flat but never dull, his characters are compellingly stamped with their limiting individuality, totally unable to be more or less than they are. Silver Street's Tony Lonto, for instance, cannot help being a good cop any more than he can keep...
...David does nothing. When he is decoyed by a hunting invitation, two workmen rape his wife. She is so ambivalent by now that she half-enjoys old-lover Charley, if not friend Tom. And she doesn't tell David of the gang-bang...