Word: eruption
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...tormented by the pleasure he takes in ultraviolent killing. Director Miike obviously wants to signpost Japanese society's ills and does so with a broad and bloody brush. Ichi dispatches his victims with a large rotating metal blade that flicks out of his sneaker. Heads, legs and arms erupt amid geysers of blood from his almost every encounter. A woman's nipples are sliced off; one male victim, suspended naked in midair by wires, comes close to losing his family allowance. In all this Miike's slick and self-aware technique serves to accentuate the mental problems of his characters...
Doan said he believes that if the communist leadership does not accept democracy in a peaceful manner, violent protest will erupt. This, he said, is not a desirable way of bringing about democracy...
...underground bunkers that cannot be reached with any conventional weapons. Again, the threat of having weapons that can penetrate these bunkers may be of more use than the weapons themselves, as they would deter anyone from building these bunkers in the first place. But if a conflict were to erupt, and another nation used weapons of mass destruction first, the U.S. should have the ability to eliminate that threat at minimal risk to American soldiers...
...issue of Afghan casualties has begun to erupt in the European press, where columnists have been citing figures compiled by Marc Herold, an economics professor at the University of New Hampshire. Drawing mostly on world-press reports of questionable reliability, Herold contends that 3,767 Afghan civilians had died by Dec. 6-more than were killed in the U.S. on Sept. 11. The Pentagon insists that civilian casualties are the lowest in the history of war. The Afghan government has no way to track those casualties. Human-rights groups say they have been unable to make any worthwhile assessment...
...glorious or heroic about going into battle. If war was necessary in Afghanistan, so be it; but I urge everyone who says it was to look closely at the man who is being brutalized in these photos and remember that when violence is institutionalized, this kind of madness will erupt sooner or later. I don't usually consider myself a sensitive person, yet when I looked at the eyes of that man begging for his life, my tears would not stop. JONATHAN BROWN Helsinki...