Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Such historians have looked for the deeper rhythms of economic growth and change, territorial expansion, developments in the arts, and environmental factors as examples of what we should be studying instead. Nonetheless dynasties have risen and fallen across well over three millenniums, and it is not completely absurd to depict the People's Republic as the latest manifestation of this historical phenomenon...
...tapes, which depict incidents among elite paratrooper units in 1991 and 1993, are chilling in and of themselves for the naked sadism they reveal. On them, dozens of Marines take turns punching, pounding and grinding the gold pins into the bloody chests of new initiates, who scream and writhe in pain...
...these protestations, pinning has a long history in the corps, and a few young jarheads last week jokingly called it a "Marine sewing circle," insisting that the ritual is an integral part of Marine bonding. But even some men who have been pinned warn that the tapes depict a form of hazing far more vicious than the customary single punch. Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general who lectures on national security at Harvard, has fond memories of the day he received his punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part...
From her home in Roswell, Georgia, Nedra Paugh, the 64-year-old grandmother of JonBenet Ramsey, indignantly surveys the media frenzy in Boulder, Colorado. Her granddaughter's childhood, which the papers depict as abnormal, was nothing of the sort, she says. Referring to a story in the Globe purportedly offering photographic evidence (a bruised elbow) that JonBenet had been physically abused, the incredulous grandmother tells TIME, "I know all about what happened. I was there. JonBenet had climbed up on a stool to look at her hamsters in their cage, and she somehow pulled the whole cage down...
...simply impossible to depict all of Christianity accurately in a few hours; moreover, all Christians haven't found a single theme in the thousands of years we've had to try. Although I wasn't able to attend the Veritas panel, I suspect the resulting unity was achieved more through exclusion than through a real consensus on such a complex and personal subject...