Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot hide from the fact that our government subsidizes suffering and oppression in the Third World. 200,000 Americans are going to Washington with a sense of responsibility, to demand that same sense of responsibility from our government. No longer should we spend our tax dollars to bomb Salvadoran villages, to machine gun Nicaraguan peasants, or to split south African miners from their families...
From Holworthy's laundry room hails the vindictive statement "Bomb Bambi in '87." But the defender of the deer rose to the rescue and not only wrote a reply but sketched a drawing of Bambi saying "No! please bomb Thumper or Blossom? Yeah, in fact, bombing Blossom is a great ideal...
Perhaps in Vienna, where the diarist makes one of her more bizarre entries: "Laszlo Szapary and Erwein Schonborn . . . both had just dug themselves out of the Palais Schonborn, where a bomb had crashed into the courtyard before they could reach the cellar. The building is pretty battered and they are now fishing among the wreckage for Erwein's shooting trophies; he had many ivory tusks mounted in silver, as well as two stuffed orangoutans." The power of Vassiltchikov's observations lies in her restraint: "These last days innumerable inscriptions in chalk have appeared on the blackened walls of wrecked houses...
...Congress wavers, Sandinista confidence grows. -- U. S. Jewish leaders go to Israel. -- Zia admits Pakistan can build the Bomb...
...most astonishing spectacles in the annals of the stage. If likely to baffle and frustrate regular theatergoers, it may also enthrall brand-new audiences, especially those under the age of reason. Inspired in equal measure by the roller derby, Coney Island fun fairs and the smoke bomb-accented variety of rock concert, Starlight turns a small boy's dream about model-train racing into an $8 million extravaganza, the most expensive show in Broadway history...