Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million people in this de facto Kurdistan between Turkey and Iraq, their painful success contains more irony than victory. A year after they fled in panic from their traditional homes into the snowy mountain passes, they are still living in hunger and cold, their survival dependent on aid from abroad. They are safe from attack only because the victors of the gulf war have warned the Iraqi military to keep its distance. U.S. and British jets regularly roar low over the region to remind Iraqi soldiers that they are being watched. "When I don't hear the sound...
...leaders come to the realization that the jail wardens thrive on the inter-ethnic competition that they intentionally foster. Arnon Zadok and Muhamed Bakri are wellcast as the brutal leaders of the two inmate groups. Their rivalry climaxes during a bloody fight, after which they join together in a hunger strike...
...that is by no means a sure thing. Strickland is in many respects the most interesting person in the book, a spectator whose outward cynicism may mask a hunger for the truth as avid, in its own way, as Browne's. The pleasure he takes in his debunking films seems tinged with bitterness, as if his quest for good, honorable people has once again been disappointed. Strickland thinks that his stammer prompts others to show him their worst sides: "His infirmity seemed to encourage people toward boasting and indiscretion. He had noticed it even as a child. It was they...
Tuesday, Feb. 18: Cruising at 4 and 9:15p.m. Homo Promo at 6 p.m. Hunger at 7:15p.m...
...budget-strapped states. But New Jersey's law is the first to freeze grants for additional children, which effectively eliminates a $64-a-month aid increase. Critics say the sum is too small to affect a woman's childbearing decisions and that the main result will be more hunger for the kids...