Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midnight rally Thursday about 1,000 students, aligned with the leftist Islamic Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), tried to stage a demonstration but found themselves confronting a group of right-wing Islamic extremists. Moderates crying "Allahu akbar!" (God is great) quickly moved in to act as a buffer between the two groups...
...Andy Young: an unauthorized meeting with P.L.O. sympathizers in Gaza. Unlike Young, Dayan kept his job. The Israelis say their aims in southern Lebanon are threefold: to force the Palestinian guerrillas to leave the area, to help the enclave of Lebanese Christians and Shi'ites survive in a buffer zone along the border, and to strengthen Israel's bargaining position in any future negotiations with Syria concerning the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israelis claim that Palestinian terrorists attempted 27 raids on Israeli territory from Lebanon in the past four months, and that each time the Palestinians were...
...tone of Dawn is wildly different from Romero's earlier film, which was stark, claustrophobic, strewn with unintentional laughs, and genuinely funny. The gore and quick cutting help provide the scares, but the heavy use of shopping mall Muzak and color (the original was in black and white) buffer the horror and amplify the irony. It's also shockingly well-directed, blazingly edited (also by Romero), well-written (by Romero), and even well-acted (not by Romero)! The music editing, color, and jerky movements of the living dead combine to create a weird cinematic tour de force...
...individuality that elevates her role beyond that of a symbolic victim. True, her suffering has been freighted with irony. Her father and husband, both killed soon after the Germans invaded Poland, were vicious anti-Semites. Sophie admits that she regarded the beleaguered inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto as a buffer that would protect her and her children. She refused to work for the Polish resistance. Her arrest was a matter of blind accident; she was caught smuggling a ham into Warsaw to give to her sick mother. At Auschwitz, she watched her young daughter being taken to the ovens...
...Western goals in southern Africa: Western powers, if they had their own choice, would like to create a neocolonial state [in Rhodesia]. So they stand behind South Africa, so South Africa can prop up Ian Smith. [The West's] entire strategy is to create a buffer out of Zimbabwe and Namibia [to protect South Africa...