Word: viciousness
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...touching performance, but one wonders if an actress of Dunaway's magnitude is required to deliver it. Daniel Blank (David Dukes), the killer who strikes concurrent with her periods of medical crisis, suffers periodic fits that make him prowl the city, striking down victims with a particularly vicious mountain climber's icepick. Yet here too is caricature--the screenplay never sufficiently explains the root of his troubles, nor why he feels compelled to shave his head, wear a wig, or sleep under a shelf in his walk-in-closet...
...York Times Columnist James Reston called Carter's campaign "vicious and personal," and added that "even if he wins, it will be difficult for him to regain the support he needs to govern." Said an editorial in the Washington Post: "Jimmy Carter is campaigning like a politician gone haywire . . . Where is the President?" Commented the Boston Globe: "The President seems bent on discarding his last ace, his reputation as a decent and compassionate...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the vicious struggle between left and right that erupted at the Labor Party's annual conference in Blackpool could not have been better timed. The growing discontent within her own party and even her own Cabinet was muted as the Tories, meeting last week in the seaside resort of Brighton, closed ranks to crow over their bitterly divided opposition. Exhorted Thatcher: "Let Labor's Orwellian nightmare of the left be a spur for us to rebuild the fortunes of this free nation...
Black Power leader Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, called upon Blacks to acquire political consciousness to organize the overthrow of capitalism--what he called "a backwards, stupid, vicious system doomed to fall...
...with New Wave trim. It takes its title from Neil Young, dresses up Linda Manz (Days of Heaven) as a rebellious punkette who alternately sings Supertramp songs and punches safety pins through her face, and it glaringly dates the death of Elvis Presley incorrectly, somehow linking him with Sid Vicious...