Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food van and, pretending to be a relative of one of the hijackers, proceeded to the steps of the plane. "Trick! Journalist!" a gunman screamed as he spotted the man's camera. As the driver fled from the scene, the gunman shot at him, then turned his AK-47 assault rifle on a crowd of journalists and photographers on the balcony of the terminal, firing over their heads. "What is this? Are you playing tricks with us?" an angry hijacker later demanded of the control-tower operator. "I want all newsmen out. One has filmed me shooting. I want that...
...attended by top Democratic leaders. Buchanan, he told questioners at the Press Club, "has been far more valuable to our cause than I have been." The Governor also noted casually that President Reagan had sent him a birthday telegram the same week that Buchanan had launched his all-out assault...
This draining of the sense of the masterpiece affects both present and past. It makes past art look ghostly and value-free, so that it can be quoted and ^ shuffled at will, without deference to the values it once embodied. Hence the postmodern assault on the chief form of classical modernist painting, abstract art. A general culture glut opens the present to a limitless eclecticism and disarms taste by making everything "interesting." And, as the critic Charles Newman argues in the most provocative book on this problem yet written by an American, The Post-Modern Aura, its net effect...
...heart attack. The strikers claimed that she had been left unattended when doctors and nurses were rounded up by the commandos. Asked one union member: ! "If this is the democracy that we workers voted for, why are they treating us this way?" Far from ending the strike, the assault led the workers to add new demands to their list of grievances...
...delivered a Browning 9-mm pistol to Agca in Milan four days before the shooting at the Vatican. Bagci's revelations could not have come at a better time for the prosecution. The same day, the mercurial Agca had stunned the court with the pronouncement that "the assault on the Pope is connected to the third secret of the Madonna of Fatima." Agca was referring to three messages the Virgin Mary is said to have given to children in the Portuguese town of Fatima in a series of apparitions beginning on May 13, 1917. Two of the messages deal with...