Word: demigods
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...wind turned the rain horizontal. At Wat Paa Luang, the fireballs were forgotten in the stampede for shelter. A soaked mass of humanity huddled under flapping tents, as the booms and bangs and drawn-out rumbles of the tempest sounded more and more like the admonitions of an irate demigod...
...opposition civilians just before the coup. And though a recent Venezuelan Supreme Court ruling that exonerated the military officers who led last April's coup was dubious, it's hard to image that Lincoln - or Simon Bolivar, the 19th-century "Liberator" of South America who is Chavez's demigod hero - would have approved of his virulent campaign to remove the justices. "Venezuela is sitting on a barrel of gunpowder," warns Carlos Ortega, who is head of the nation's largest labor union but has become one of Chavez's fiercest opponents. "People can't take this anymore...
Fortunately, one small device can give me the power of a genie, a demigod and a high school-aged James Bond—my television remote. This summer I have rediscovered cartoons on cable, and life has been as glorious as a never-ending Saturday morning...
...people my age," says Jiang, "the Cultural Revolution was actually a lot of fun. We were just kids being kids." When Jiang met American director Martin Scorsese in New York City in 1992, he told him his idea for In the Heat of the Sun. Jiang's directing demigod told him simply: "Do it." It was wise advice. "You can see the person behind the film so clearly," says veteran cinematographer Christopher Doyle, explaining why he considers Heat one of the most remarkable movies he's ever seen. "It is informed by an incredible veracity...
...watched in this small community of 27 Indian families and some 50 Indonesian workers, and Carolyn's blond hair and Caucasian features made her particularly conspicuous, says Ghulam Hussein, a 53-year-old estate worker. Previously, Ghulam says, Shanmugavela had taken her to a nearby temple devoted to a demigod called Muniandy...