Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...placards on the approximately two-mile trek from the Lincoln Memorial to the Chinese embassy. Participants described the scene as eerily similar to that at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the sight of last spring's demonstrations and the focal point of a government crackdown that left thousands of students dead or arrested...
Mobuto is a family man, as well. Not only is he exceedingly generous in divvying up the proceeds of his plunder among close relatives, he has also worked to establish a personality cult honoring his dead mother. He says he wants her to be just as respected as the Virgin Mary...
...British Prime Minister, some even in English, the new language of the New China, I am transfixed by the marriage of the two coffins in front of me. The groom died in an automobile accident five days earlier at the age of 23. The body of his bride, dead of cancer for five months, cost $3 to exhume. They had never...
After exhausting their fascination with Margaret Thatcher, a few of the guests allow as how, yes, one might think that marrying dead people is bizarre. But as an occasional feature of life in these parts for longer than anyone can remember, "ghost marriages" are just another relic of ancient China, another relatively harmless superstition for a billion people struggling to jerk themselves toward the 21st century...
...Even the dead bride's Thatcher fixation tells a larger tale. The young woman, it seems, idolized Thatcher, not because she shared her politics but because with a single phrase Thatcher once captured her own world view: "If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman...