Word: viciousness
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...since Francisco Franco's death last November had the new regime of King Juan Carlos faced a grimmer spectacle of unrest than it did last week. The northern Basque province of Alava was in a vicious, rebellious mood. The provincial capital of Vitoria was completely shut down, and the industrial city's 180,000 inhabitants seethed with bitterness. Riot police sent in by the national government had shot dead three young demonstrators outside one of Vitoria's churches; at least 100 more citizens were wounded in the melee...
...cities, the cycle is as depressingly vicious as it is familiar. Businesses decamp; the young, the middle class, the skilled, the well educated flee; the tax base erodes. So taxes go even higher, driving out still more productive, wage-earning families. Says George Sternlieb of Rutgers University's Center for Urban Policy Research: "We have no experience in shaping decline. No graceful way of shrinking a city. We don't know what to do with people left in a city for whom there are no job opportunities." Although the solutions are elusive, it is clear that the cities...
...made it clear that he at least sympathized with indigenous leftist forces in the third world. But before long that hope, too, was gone. Ambler's heroes now tend to look out for number one, and more and more of them are international hybrids lost in a sea of vicious superpowers...
...they find themselves funny, they should not be disappointed with the show. Mark O'Donnell, taking his cue from the stuffed crocodiles over the Pudding's mantel, manages to change a repugnant beast and a vicious sport into a joke. Tots in Tinseltown mocks elitism, the quest for social position and the opportunist money-grubbing that buys such status. O'Donnell's game is played by the Peabodies and the Woolworths, who cavort on stage, singing "We went and bought ourselves a lot of mystique..." The audience--Pudding members, patrons, and impressionable followers--love it. They clap and laugh...
...foreign base, began in both cases to seriously alienate the peasantry and created an obstacle to further development of the resistance movement. The peasant population resented the technique whereby roving guerrilla bands moved in and out of combat zones while the peasantry, who remained on the terrain, often suffered vicious Portuguese reprisals...