Word: viciousness
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...opening game features a well-devised trap. But the lad is too slithery to hold, and he is soon en route to maman, with fatal consequences for her. From that fiery shoot-out until checkmate, the contest becomes increasingly taut, vicious and engaging. At each turn, Laemmle edges closer to his goal. At every escape, Thomas becomes a little wearier, a trifle more dependent on a cast of peasants, restaurateurs, shopkeepers and devious intelligence operatives. None are so devious or inventive as he is. The most adept, of course, proves to be Quartermain, flown in to rescue the child...
...repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, it has been said, it will make itself true. For some time now, Harvard students have been bombarded by vicious attacks on the final clubs and lurid stories of their alleged misconduct, culminating in Elizabeth Wurtzel's rambling opinion piece in last Tuesday's Crimson ["Liquor, Pot, Cocaine, Ecstasy and Sexism," 11/22/88] which insinuated that club members are somehow responsible, among other things, for the homelessness problem in Cambridge. Lisa Schkolnick's complaint (not yet even a lawsuit) against the Fly Club to the Massachussetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD...
...case; but for him to forswear at least part of his own heritage made him look positively furtive. He seemed to be hiding secrets as well as his smile. That would help Ailes in the crucial assignment he had given himself -- turning the unrelentingly nice George Bush into a vicious campaigner...
...particularly vicious stereotype appears in a new Pontiac ad. The ad features representatives from a variety of car manufacturers. When the fictional spokesman for Nissan--an Asian actor--stands up he blathers on in basically incomprehensible English. We are meant to see him not only as an enemy, but as a particular type of enemy. He is loud and boorish, all bug-eyes and buck teeth. It is a convenient way to deal with American fears, making Asians seem at once crude and oddly polite and subservient...
Last Friday Philipp Jenninger, president of the West German Parliament, resigned after an address that said many Germans felt that Adolf Hitler brought "glorious times" before the war and the Holocaust. Jenninger's nationally televised speech was meant to mark the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the vicious rampage against the Jews that began the Nazi genocide...