Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hitler's Final Solution. As the Reagans passed picture after picture of wretched inmates and naked corpses, they had trouble holding back their emotions. Proceeding to an 80-ft. gray stone obelisk that towers above the camp's mounded mass graves, Reagan spoke huskily of Bergen-Belsen's dead, who include Dutch Schoolgirl Anne Frank. Then he sounded his uplifting theme: "We are here today to confirm that the horror cannot outlast hope...
...Bitburg. "The crimes of the SS must rank among the most heinous in human history," he said. "But others buried there were simply soldiers in the German army." The President went on: "The evil world of Nazism turned all values upside down. Nevertheless, we can mourn the German war dead as human beings, crushed by a vicious ideology...
...that they would rather die in the camp than face the ordeals of the open road. At that, soldiers began herding refugees out of the camp and setting fire to their huts. Two people were beaten to death in a struggle with troopers, and 17 other refugees were found dead near Ibnet once the evacuation began...
...screen: "You are in a clearing in dense woods in the southeast corner of Central Park. A pond is to the west. A narrow path leads north along the shore of the pond and to the north you can hear occasional low growls. Near you is a pile of dead leaves." If the player should then type, "Examine the leaves," the program responds, "Under the leaves you see an old rusted grating set into a patch of broken concrete." And the adventure begins...
...Bell is a fine camera craftsman: he can make a scene shot in available light look as if it were shot on a sound stage. But this virtue can be a defect, for it distances the audience from the grim occurrences. By the end of the film, DeWayne is dead, with an empty Coke can resting on his coffin. One does not question the truth of that shot, only the sensibility that permits it to survive the final cut. Streetwise keeps demonstrating the cliche that life too often resembles a bad movie. But there is more to be said here...