Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficulty with Goya is that for the past hundred years and more, he has been somewhat obscured by the Goyaesque. Our idea of him has been so much shaped by the Romantic sensibility that pervaded Europe after his death that we still like to see him as a death-haunted, irrational loner, pitted by his - temperament against his times -- the first skeptic of art, the titanic ancestor of surrealism. "It is when Goya abandons himself to his capacity for fantasy that he is most admirable," wrote Theophile Gautier in 1842. "No one can equal him in making black clouds, filled...
...endorsement only underscored the hypocrisy of the Czech regime. That day, baton-wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally was called to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Jan Palach, a student who set fire to himself in protest against the 1968 Soviet- led invasion...
Bundy was condemned for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach of Lake City. Her body was found in an abandoned pigsty. He also was sentenced to death for killing two Florida State students in Tallahassee...
More than 100 people supporting the execution and about two dozen against milled around outside the Florida State Prison. At 7 a.m. a small group of death penalty supporters lit sparklers and firecrackers and cheered, while opponents silently held candles and then held a memorial service...
...execution was the 20th in Florida since it resumed executions in 1979; 106 murderers have been put to death in the United States since capital punishment was restored...