Word: funerales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The first skirmish occurred three weeks ago, when two men traded gunfire with police during a 20-mile car chase. Captured suspect Jerald Dean Allen flashed hate tattoos and announced, "I'm fighting for my cause." A week later, Matthaeus Jaehnig, 25, ended a similar chase by killing officer Bruce...
Five years is a long time to go without laughing at a U.S. President. Nixon, bless him, would hardly let a day go by without convulsing the public. So many memories--such as when he paid a visit to the Great Wall of China and remarked to Secretary of State...
A funeral is an odd blend of joy and sadness. Relatives separated by miles and years ecstatically renew their old affection, only to guiltily remember, at intervals, the solemn event that reunites them. This awkward dichotomy is captured, with humor, by Joseph O'Connor's play Red Roses and Petrol...
The family initially delights in its reunion, but sibling revelry quickly degenerates into sibling rivalry. Even remembrances of Enda, fueled by the discovery of his autobiographical video-tapes, assume a nasty edge. His emotional distance from his offspring and his long-ago affair still haunt his family. Catherine secretly informs...
"The festival is a funeral rite, a way of invoking the dead," said Chris Tirres, one of the organizers of the event and a Divinity School student. "It really started with the Aztecs, who had a preoccupation with the netherworld."