Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought about it had made a private bet with himself that no matter how tight the security, the odds were that a fanatic with a bomb in a gym bag would take down half a stadium one afternoon. When, the night before the opening, a man drove a car down the sidewalk in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, killing one person and injuring some 50 others, Americans muttered, "Oh, God! Here we go." But then the Games went off as peacefully as an Edwardian field...
When rescue teams eventually reached the wreckage, they found that the ninth car of the train had been demolished by the blast; at least 15 people were found dead and 80 were seriously injured. It was Italy's bloodiest terrorist act since the authorities began to gain the upper hand in the fight against political extremists two years...
Investigators looking into last week's explosion theorized that the bomb was concealed in a piece of luggage and placed on a fold-down seat in the crowded corridor of the car in which the blast occurred. The type of explosive used remained unidentified. Shortly after word of the disaster spread, police issued a description of a dark-haired young man who was seen by a number of witnesses as he leaped off the train at the Florence station, where 904 stopped for ten minutes an hour before the explosion. The man was carrying an athletic bag that appeared...
Candy Lightner had a horrible reason for wanting to achieve that goal. On May 3, 1980, her 13-year-old daughter Cari was walking to a church carnival in Fair Oaks, Calif., when a car swerved out of control and killed her. Police arrested a 46-year-old cannery worker named Clarence Busch and found that he had a long record of arrests for intoxication. Less than a week earlier, he had been bailed out on a hit-and-run drunk-driving charge. A policeman told Lightner that Busch was unlikely to spend any time behind bars for killing...
...sexuality, it is at a temple covered with erotic statuary and guarded by a large troop of anarchically aggressive monkeys. Later, going to testify at Aziz's trial, she must drive through a crowd raging at her, and a man in a monkey costume leaps on her car, pressing his face menacingly against the window. Is it this echo that impels her to testify that she was the victim of a hallucination and thus free Aziz from his anguish? The movie is silent on the point, allowing us to make what we will of the image...