"I was in a vicious cycle," recalls Alex, whose story is included in a new book about postnatal depression, Fine (Not Fine) by Bridget Hargreave.
" 'Evan, what are you doing?' is a legitimate question to ask, but the critic never asked me," Mr. Maurer said, recalling a vicious review in a local newspaper.
He recalled the vicious campaign against peasants for supposedly concealing their bountiful grain -- this after the drought of 1959, which came on the heels of the Great Leap's ill-conceived collectivization and led to mass starvation.
"He was the most vicious of them all," Steven Pagones recalled.
Students of Black American history recall Emmett Till's vicious murder when we consider Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice.
Mr. Dautrich recalled the ad as "vicious and really negative, but very effective".
"Scars of the civil war run deep," says a bushy-bearded sheikh-cum-businessman in Tripoli, recalling Lebanon's own vicious bloodletting of 1975-90.
Longtime readers may recall that, two years ago, vicious windstorms knocked out our power for six days during a frigid March.
By describing Brown as "a demon" coming at him, Wilson recalled some of the more vicious stereotypes of African-Americans from an earlier era.
Unforgiving, unrepentant, and vicious, Khadra's Qaddafi is also mercurial — sentimental when recalling his Bedouin childhood, darkly funny when mocking Arab dictators who accede too easily in the face of their people's demands.
