Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's 50th anniversary, these two critical elements of the beauty-and-the-beast tale were reunited: a ten-story, 3,000-lb. inflatable Kong (at 84 ft., more than 30 ft. taller than the original) was hoisted a quarter-mile in the air to his old haunt atop the Empire State. Even without the menacing biplanes, Kong fared poorly, with tangled cables and tears in his heavy vinyl-coated nylon skin. But after a week of deflating mishaps, the balloon's builders, who plan to take the ape on tour this year, finally got the weather...
Five minutes later the Eagles' defensive strategy came back to haunt them. With everybody and their cousin in front of the Eagle net, someone was bound to get called for blocking the shooting lane--exactly what happened at 17.03 in the first hall...
...works on Ohio River tugboats begins to tire of life passed in hotel rooms and pool halls and in the company of prostitutes and winos. He knows that his job. "to watch barge rats and walk the wet steel edges," is dangerous, and the casualties of river accidents haunt him. But he resigns himself to an existence like the other river workers, who "are on for a month, off for a month and if they are lucky...can live that way for the rest of their days...
...that it has to do with the fact that scholars like Bernstein and Kazhdan work in pure mathematics which, unlike applied math, has no immediate use for developing weapons and technology. "These people tend to be short-sighted," he says, adding that losing such mathematicians could come back to haunt the Soviets in the long-term...
...murdered by Lebanese Christians last September in retaliation for the assasination of Bashir Gemayel. No one will ever know precisely how many Palestinians--many of them women and children--were killed. But numbers don't really matter. The fact of the massacre speaks for itself, and eloquently enough to haunt not just survivors of the carnage but also an entire country that has assumed "indirect responsibility" for this tragic bit of history...