Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cenci (David Wingrove) is a man fed up with the hypocrisies of the Renaissance Church, personified by Camillo (Roger Kaplan). We know that Camillo embodies these hypocrisies--he always wears a miter--especially since he denounces Cenci for some unnamed crime, yet wants to punish our hero by taking away his estates in the name of the Church, thereby revealing greed. To demonstrate his contempt for this false system of values, Cenci embarks on a spree of killing and feasting, all leading up to his "defilement" of his daughter Beatrice (Susan Kelly). "For me," he says, "life, death, god, incest...
...kind of fed up with the rest of the planet, and so it became a case of 'this is for me'--you know, like the L'Oreal commercial," she explained...
...Taken aback by Mondale's onslaught, Hart was defensive and churlish. Too late, he tried to clamber back on the highroad. "I have really tried very hard not to attack anyone in this race," he insisted in a local television debate two days before the primary. "Voters are fed up with this penny ante, picky business." But he could not restrain himself and fell to quibbling with Mondale over who had started the negative campaigning. Chastened by the New York landslide, Hart grimly announced, "If New York proved anything, it was that he [Mondale] got me down...
...death toll from a devastating fire last Feb. 25 in the shantytown-or favela-of Vila Soco, in the southern Brazilian town of Cubatao, was simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble...
...colleagues confirmed what they had feared. Based on the number of shacks destroyed and the average number of people per family, Figueiredo estimated that 300 children under five must have been killed in the fire. They eventually estimated more than 500 people dead. Because the blaze was fed by a highly combustible octane that caused the fireball to reach 1,000° C, he deduced that the children had been incinerated. "The bodies of young children trapped in the blaze were literally cremated," he said. "And since whole families were killed, there was no one to report the children...