Word: cannibalisme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Russians have always loved their books profoundly. Literature has sometimes sustained the Russians when almost everything else was gone. During the siege of Leningrad, the city's population, frozen and starving down to the verge of cannibalism, drew strength by listening to a team of poets as they read on...
A chilling array of charges faced former Central African Republic Leader Jean- Bedel Bokassa in court last week. The self-proclaimed Emperor, who unexpectedly returned home in October after seven years of exile, stands accused of crimes ranging from cannibalism to concealing corpses to killing children during a brutal 14...
Given the remorseless nature of her writing, Rendell, 56, is surprisingly coy about her attempts to comprehend the workings of the criminal mind. "I do research," she says in crisp British tones. "But not in the conventional sense." She does acknowledge that her son Simon, 32, a social worker who...
Yet the directors do not hesitate to point up themes, nor do they shy away from the unpleasant. Measure, As You Like It and the third outdoor production, the infrequently seen Titus Andronicus, all emphasize the savagery that befalls well-governed states when just men fail to hold on to...
There are rumors of rampant cannibalism, but Britons are evidently not in season. Instead, the explorers undergo a more familiar kind of torture. During one native gathering, they offer each other up to teach the quasiprimitive Borneans some new dance steps, and at another they end up, reports the author...