Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stops out. Each scene, whether it means to elegize or horrify, is unrelenting, unmodulated, rabid with its own righteousness. And yet, frequently, the crazy machine works because of its voluptuous imagery. When Ron is wounded in Viet Nam, he collapses backward, and from his mouth a stream of blood spurts like the fountain of lost youth. The hospital sequence is an insider's tour of hell, and the Mexican brothel is an endless emotional purgatory...
Deodorant soap, pacemakers, food-color additives, blood banks, coffee, tongue depressors, eyeglass screws, tampons and cancer drugs -- all come under the scrutiny of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA certifies the purity and safety of one-quarter of all U.S. consumer products, in addition to regulating the $400 billion food, pharmaceutical and medical-devices industries. But throughout the 1980s the FDA has been traumatized by budget and staff reductions, fusses over testing of drugs to combat AIDS, second- guessing over poisoned Chilean grapes, corrupt employees and controversies over the nutritional claims adorning food packages...
Rather than revelling in the past, Piltch stresses that the young blood, and the old blood, aren't out for blood against the teams that conquered Crimson perfection last year...
...point, the government seemed intent on depicting a mood of impending breakdown, as if trying to ensure its survival by convincing people that only the present leaders could keep blood from flowing in the streets. In a statement issued through the state-run ADN news agency last Wednesday, the government reported "growing indications of stormings of facilities and installations of the National People's Army." But no mention was made of where the assaults took place. In a separate appeal, from the army, generals warned that they would not permit disturbances at military installations and called on soldiers to fulfull...
...when he stopped to help four men whose pickup truck had apparently broken down. According to an affidavit given to the police, the men abducted Mxenge, drove him to a field outside a nearby soccer stadium, stabbed him repeatedly and then left him to die in a pool of blood...