Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural and man-made factors have combined most disastrously in Karamoja, a Vermont-sized rangeland in Uganda 200 miles northeast of Kampala. Since the downfall of Amin last year, Karamoja has turned into a surrealistic terror, as heavily armed marauders led by remnants of the fallen dictator's army swoop down on villages in search of food. While stealing it, they often kill every man, woman and child in sight. After almost a dozen relief workers were murdered, CARE and other agencies considered suspending their operations until some semblance of order could be restored. The troops dispatched...
...week's end Chrysler's full-court press had succeeded. All 17 banks had fallen into line, including the Tejarat Bank of Tehran, to which Chrysler owed $3.6 million. The last holdout was the Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank of Frankfurt, West Germany. Said one banker...
...cannon. The secret policemen were disguised as civilians doing volunteer work on the abandoned site. As the spectators peered at the paintings and a few Western reporters clicked their cameras, the agents attacked, flinging the canvases into rubbish trucks. Then the bulldozers and water cannon moved in, grinding over fallen works and chasing the drenched artists from the site...
...edge. Jack is also a man in search of his double, which he sees in his son. Kubrick never hesitates to shoot whole sequences through a mirror; two heart-stopping moments are the work of simple reflections. In the mirrors, Jack sees his second self, the self that has fallen under the hotel's influence...
...district attorney heard of Jacobson's dealings and warned the Brooklyn prison, in vain, to keep a close watch on him. One of Jacobson's deals had been with DeRosa, who had bought a Vermont ski lodge from the former horse trainer in 1977. DeRosa, however, had fallen behind in his payments, and now it might have come time for Jacobson to ask for a favor. Police speculate that DeRosa, attaché case in hand, brought a gray suit to the House of Detention and a razor for Jacobson to shave off his distinctively droopy mustache. Without...