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...Christians had fled inland to the Christian stronghold of Jezzine and south to the Israeli security zone before the advancing militias swept into their villages. Christian leaders, however, claimed that 70 people, mainly the elderly who stayed behind, had been slaughtered. Indeed, the invaders, in the first flush of victory, shot at anything that moved, including dogs and donkeys...
Rosanna Arquette is a one-woman encounter group. Emotions flush onto her bold-featured face, hold for a moment to illuminate her character's pensive or convulsive mood, then fly away. Always changing, always right. "Emotionally," says John Sayles, who directed her as the Jewish princess in Baby, It's You, "Rosanna can go from zero to 60 in no time flat." In Desperately Seeking Susan, Arquette reveals herself as a master of comic body language--and there is eloquence in that delicately voluptuous body--but she still uses something like an internal Ouija board to find Roberta's pressure...
...jillions of soft-serv places dispensing chilled liquid linoleum, there are a select few spots that--in price, generosity and yumminess--put Steve's and Herrell's to shame. The best shop on The Cape is on 6A in Dennis village: The Ice Cream Smuggler, where the Oreo is flush with cookies and the Moch.. Chip and Chocolate Chocolate Almond will drive you wild.11Fishing on Colorado's Red Feather Lakes...
...clandestine airstrip. What they found was a busy, self-contained complex devoted entirely to the production of cocaine. Tranquilandia included a dormitory large enough to sleep 80 or more, and a dining area complete with dishwasher and refrigerator. Its bathrooms were furnished with showers and orange-and-white flush toilets made of Italian ceramic. Among its more luxurious appointments were a Betamax video recorder, a microwave oven and a library of pornographic magazines. According to the community's records, fresh supplies of chickens and pigs were flown in daily; the settlement's payroll took care of as many...
...outset, the final stage was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair. The coqueros were content to ship cocaine into the U.S. via "mules," who would coat their stomachs with cod-liver oil or honey, then swallow the cocaine wrapped in condoms. If they were lucky, they could flush the drug out once they were over the border. Soon enough, however, the cocaine czars could afford to send bulk shipments into the U.S. in their own DC-6 aircraft or by high-powered speedboats. By 1983, indeed, the system was running so efficiently that the market was glutted with cocaine...