Word: bagdad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BAGHDAD: It hardly registered on the radar of the world?s media, but an historic event took place here today. For the first time since the Gulf War, U.N. weapons inspectors entered an Iraqi presidential site Thursday. The Radwaniyah Palace in Bagdad played host to 20 busloads of UNSCOM officials and their diplomatic escorts -- all primed and ready to pounce on any evidence of weapons of mass destruction, right...
...played heroes from foreign cultures (Robin Hood, Zorro, D'Artagnan, the Thief of Bagdad), yet he was always an American abroad, showing the Old World how to win the fair maiden, cure each injustice. And he'd do it with a laugh--at the fix he was in, at the bulky chore of filmmaking, at the sheer joy of being Doug...
...Hollywood mainstream. Fairbanks, though, was Hollywood--in his itch for control (he produced his films and wrote most of them), in his loving to be loved, in his taste for pricey grandeur. He ordered the biggest sets (Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood), the highest budgets (The Thief of Bagdad), the first epic film shot wholly in Technicolor (The Black Pirate). At times this largeness slowed the films' pace; you wait an hour for the stunts and the fun to kick...
...West was just that: a myth, however durable. The real frontier was urban--a place of hitherto unimagined overcrowding, of cultural collision enforced by huge-scale immigration, of rapid change, where class ground against class like the imperfect rollers of a giant machine. Its epitome was New York City--Bagdad-on-the-Subway, as the writer O. Henry called it--a city in convulsive and continuous transition, bursting at the seams with high spirits, misery and spectacle...
...allied pilots continued to do major damage to Iraqi positions, knocking out a Scud launcher, sinking a patrol boat and raining shellfire on troops. A major Bagdad bridge that crosses the Tigris River was destroyed, killing and injuring many civilians, Iraq said...