Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brothers (who are actually former Siamese twins) are obsessed with death; they inflict their grief on the audience by taking elaborate, stop-action films of dead animals decaying. With cheerful music playing on the soundtrack, we watch crocodiles, dalmatians, zebras, tropical fish and the rest of Noah's Ark decompose before our eyes...
Violent racism is dead. A generation ago, Birmingham's chief of police, Bull Connor, was sending dogs out to attack Blacks. Nowadays, the law--if not all the people--are on the side of Blacks. Powerless, frustrated whites hurling rocks at protesters in Forsyth is not evidence of the return of Connorism. Cummings, Georgia is not symbolic of the racism that exists in American today. Racism's current incarnation is as hidden as it is persistent...
WORLD: A bloody clash in Manila leaves twelve dead -- and Aquino in trouble...
...later who had given the order, or whether any was issued, but suddenly the marines put their M-16 rifles to their shoulders and began firing into the crowd. A few demonstrators drew guns of their own and fired back; thousands of others dashed for cover, some dragging dead and wounded comrades behind them. For more than a minute the rattle of automatic-weapons fire echoed across the bridge. When the marines finally stopped firing, four jeeps raced after the protesters, the soldiers aboard loosing tear-gas canisters to disperse what remained of the crowd...
...street at least twelve protesters lay dead and dozens wounded; the final count of injured would reach 94. Not only were the deaths the first to have occurred in a demonstration against the Aquino government, but the toll surpassed that of a similar tragedy in Manila in September 1983, when Ferdinand Marcos was still in power. At that time eleven people were killed at the very same spot during an antiregime rally. Surveying the scene after last week's carnage, a policeman shook his head and muttered, "They fired too soon...