Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family will be lucky, and an aunt, an uncle or a cousin will be able to re-create the past with a precision that makes the narrative virtually incontestable, a true copy of what has gone before. That is the nature of Jung Chang's mesmerizing memoir. With a calm that suggests infallibility, she tells the story of her mother and her maternal grandmother and, by doing so, makes visible, intimate and immediate the pain and horror that are cloaked in the silence of China's recent history...
...investigated about 16-20 abduction cases, beginning by putting subjects through a battery of tests that is designed to see if there is one specific personality type that favors UFO abductions. Abductees usually have one of two basic personality types: "fantasy-oriented and paranoid" or "totally normal, overly calm and objective...
Strolling the calm paths of Stanley Park, he muses about the perils of celebrity. "The hysteria around public figures is unhealthy," he says. "The inner landscape of their personalities is barren." A mother approaches, dragging along a shy three-year-old. "Are you the famous children's singer Raffi?" she gushes. "I was," he answers. Gently, he declines to sing or / sign an autograph. As the irked mother huffs off, he blows a kiss to her child, who smiles knowingly...
...know, Anatoli, when I was talking to those people, my face did not give a single twitch. I was absolutely calm. I am still calm. I am ! convinced that I am right. I am also convinced that this is a roll of the dice. They will never achieve this! It's a criminal adventure...
...targets across the secessionist republic. A massive column of federal battle tanks, armored personnel carriers and 155-mm howitzers set out from Belgrade to assault Croatia's eastern wing, which borders on Serbia. In another action, two columns of federal reservists marched into Bosnia-Herzegovina, shattering the tense calm of that buffer state with its explosive mixture of Serbs, Croatians and Slavic Muslims. When an oil refinery blew up under attack in Osijek, Croatia's key city in the east, it became clear that a region long dormant had loosed a volcano of passions...