Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volley of shrieks and screams. The protagonist, Francis Geminiani, a Harvard junior back home in Philadelphia for the summer, leans out his second-story window, plants a speaker on the sill in a grand gesture of defiance, and blares an opera record to combat the 7 a.m. assault. This awakens his obese next-door neighbor, Bunny Weinberger, who throws open her second-story window and screeches at him to "turn off that shitty music." Besides, she yells, one of those workers is her uncle. (Everyone, you see, is Family, and no one can invade like a relative.) The opening barrage...
...that one would be well within his right to show films on mutilation of Nazi or South African prison inmates to a class of medical students, but such an act is considered so monstrous that it would cause outrage. Because a practice is "widespread" (as is sadistic assault in this country) does not justify a filmic academic presentation to a college classroom...
...settlement's 3,000 original residents remain, tending the livestock and carrying on the war against the Ethiopians and their Cuban and Soviet allies. "This is a town of warriors," said a grim-faced herdsman who, like almost every other man in town, had an AK-47 assault rifle slung over his shoulder. "If I had the power, I would wipe the Ethiopians off the face of the earth...
...frontal assault on Kennedy showed that Carter does not perceive this. He not only believes the polls, he trusts them, and felt some sharp thrusts at Kennedy's patriotism would bury him (not to mention having press secretary Jody Powell charge him with an "unrestrained display of political ambition," of all things...
Three months ago, however, a well-armed band of zealous dissidents attacked the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, holiest of all Muslim shrines, and proclaimed one of their leaders the new Mahdi, or messiah. It took Saudi forces nearly two weeks to dislodge the invaders, and the audacious assault has jolted the royal family to its gilded foundations. "They were shocked and embarrassed, to say the least," says a Saudi with close ties to the ruling elite, "but it drew their attention to things they had neglected in the past...