Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burt Reynolds shoot-'em-up, Stick, is a commercial and cinematic clunker. Charles Bronson has not had a big U.S. box-office success in years. Steve McQueen is long dead. Meanwhile Code of Silence, Chuck Norris' third movie in eight months, sold more tickets in its opening week than any other movie in the country. In his strictly wham-bam B-movie genre, Norris, a former karate champion, has become the undisputed superstar. No longer a cult figure but still well this side of A-list famous, Norris and some of his Hollywood partisans figure his celebrity is analogous...
Allende, a former journalist, has even scored a success in her native Chile, despite the fact that the present government came to power after the 1973 assassination of her uncle, Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens. Although the book is sympathetic to the dead leader, Chile's ruling junta has permitted the novel to pass through its stringent censorship...
Esteban's efforts to please Clara prove disastrous. After their wedding he can think of nothing better to present to his bride than the hide of her beloved dead dog Barrabas, turned into a rug and laid out at the foot of the marriage bed. "His two glass eyes stared up at her with the helpless look that is the specialty of taxidermists." Esteban's insensitiveness toward his wife extends beyond the grave. When Clara dies, the inconsolable widower begins wearing a suede pouch hanging under his shirt. "In it were his wife's false teeth, which he treated...
...distance buses bound for towns in the adjoining state of Uttar Pradesh. Suddenly explosions ripped through the vehicles, shattering windows and filling the station with acrid smoke. Panic broke out and passengers frantically scrambled away from the platforms. When rescuers arrived a few minutes later, they found seven people dead in the wreckage; 30 others were injured, many critically...
...unbelievable to sit there and see that film of not only the dead and the ranks of dead, but the condition of the living," the President said. "I remember one shot--I can never forget. There was a building that looked like a warehouse. The floor was entirely carpeted with bodies. And in that film, while we were looking at that, out in the middle of all those bodies, suddenly, slowly one body moved and raised up, a man on his elbow, and tried with his other hand to gesture. He was alone, alive with the dead...