Word: armored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heavy Metal album cover, or maybe Charlotte of Charlotte's web keye-up on Benzedrine, she hovers suspended in a junkyard web, hissing threats to Michael Jackson, clicking her Ultra-Nails at the camera. The best 3-D moment in Captain EO comes when the Queen unravels her armor-plated crab claws and practically, you know, picks yer nose. It's great. It's, uhh, disgusting...
While Democrats cannot yet know for sure whether Reagan knew of the Contra funding, they are utter imbeciles if they fail to make concerted efforts to find out. They are faced with their greatest opportunity to crack Reagan's teflon armor. All they have to do is look at the polls. It is no coincidence that the 20 point dive in Reagan's approval rating comes at a time when the majority of Americans believe that he knew about the funding...
...named the weapon for the Soviet Foreign Minister and used it with devastating effect against Soviet tanks during the winter war of 1939-40. The Molotov cocktail gained further notoriety a year later, when ill- equipped Soviet troops were forced to deploy the makeshift fire bombs against advancing German armor. After the Nazi invasion began, it was Molotov, not the stunned and demoralized Stalin, who announced the shocking news to his countrymen in a radio broadcast...
...doing a little free-lance slaving, Mendoza soon kills his brother in a quarrel, succumbs to righteous guilt and then struggles to atone. To abase himself while scaling the side of the falls as the good father's newest acolyte, Mendoza insists on toting a heavyweight bag of arms, armor and other accoutrements of civilization. This junk boldly symbolizes the burden of his sins, and watching Mendoza struggle with it, we do not know whether to weep or laugh. But we savor this psychological ambiguity in a movie that is generally much more intent on mining a vague political message...
...balmy Sunday evening, and General Augusto Pinochet was making the 23-mile trip back to the capital, Santiago, from his weekend retreat at El Melocoton, accompanied by his ten-year-old grandson. The President's armor- plated Mercedes was the fourth in a five-car caravan. Suddenly, an oncoming car pulling a small camping trailer swerved across the road, blocking the presidential motorcade. "Intense firing began," Pinochet later recalled, "with machine guns, rifles and bazookas or possibly rocket launchers and some hand grenades." The barrage, which came both from the trailer and the surrounding hillsides, cut down the two motorcycle...