Word: viciousness
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...Cambridge, Play It Again Sam (Woody Allen's best film, with excellent parody inserts of film styles), Bad Company (a Western by the authors of Bonnie and Clyde), Bed and Board (a witty film by Truffaut), Exterminating Angel (pointed, vicious, yet entertaining surrealism at an upper class dinner party by Luis Bunuel), Yojimbo (a samurai Western by Kurosawa), The Hireling (a deficient companion piece to The go-Between), and finally, those two theaters wading in stagnant ponds...
Shortly after 8 p.m., a squad of 22 policemen entered the riot area and pleaded with the mob to disperse. A vicious baton charge followed, punctuated by volleys of tear gas. Then the order to open fire rang out, and history seemed to repeat itself. At dawn eleven blacks lay dead, cut down by police bullets. Another 27 were injured...
...terror bombing of Indochina is in itself sufficient to make toppling the Nixon regime morally imperative. The continued bombing of the Khmer Rouge right up until the Congressionally imposed August 15 deadline betrayed any attempt of Nixonian "statesmanship" to rationalize its murders, and conclusively demonstrated the vicious insanity long buried in Nixon's psychology...
...matter of public record, even without the vaunted Watergate tapes. Failure to relieve Nixon is tantamount to deciding that a president may, without fear of retribution, lead an Administration of liars, cheats and criminals. It is tantamount to deciding that an American government can pursue insanely vicious policies without losing its legitimacy. If Nixon is permitted to remain in office what vices will ever constitute grounds for removing a president...
Without realizing precisely what he is doing, Mailer destroys Miller by character assasination. In the process of writing his story, the old competitor in Mailer cannot stop himself from taking vicious shots at Miller's intellectual capacity, trying to make Miller's reputation seem inflated. Finally, the liberties that Mailer takes as novelist sometimes just sicken...