(Brantley) *'PRIMO' In his crystalline adaptation of "If This Is a Man," Primo Levi's memoir of the Holocaust, Antony Sher creates a portrait in which brutal memory penetrates the very marrow of existence.
It became enormous and dragged with it in the most brutal memories of the past, while also shedding a solid foundation in society and creating rival camps and fanatic doctrines.
But the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, young men and women in their prime, survivors of bomb blasts and bearers of brutal memories, are catching up.
Memories of the Depression were still fresh, as were the brutal memories of service in World War II and Korea.
Brutal memories are flooding back.
Sadly, for young Tamira* it only manages to bring back the horrifying memory of a brutal rape she endured last October, just steps away from her grandmother's house.
Sunday's violence, though relatively minor, revived memories of a brutal police crackdown on protesters in 2007.
Why can we not marry each other, or love each other?" The case has resonated in Herat, in part because it stirred memories of a brutal stoning ordered by the Taliban last summer in northern Afghanistan.
His painful rise and fall is interspersed with childhood memories of a brutal polio hospital, presided over by a tyrannical orderly (Toby Jones) and bittersweet thoughts of his dignified old dad (Ray Winstone).
In the past couple of years, the country has been making a huge push to remedy its gigantic public image problem (memories of a brutal civil war in the '80s have been difficult to erase) in service of convincing travelers from the United States and abroad that it's not so different from Costa Rica, its tourism-magnet neighbor to the south.
