Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encouraging others to attend classes. Legion members, mostly wealthy youngsters from prominent families, prowled less well-to-do neighborhoods at night, firing shots at one student's home, exploding a pipe bomb on another's car. A fire bomb tossed at a black student's house failed to hurt anyone only because it fell short and ignited in the front yard. Said a classmate: "These pillars of our community (were) doing worse things than we will ever do in our lives...
...felt like I cheated [Coach] Ishan [Gurdal]. He worked with me for two years and then I went and got hurt on him," says Doyle. "I lost control in volleyball junior year--and I regret doing it because it's the only time I've ever quit. I think that's why I stayed at Harvard--I couldn't quit...
Critics argue that a U.S. withdrawal of investment would hurt rather than help the situation of blacks in South Africa. Fully one-third of the U.S. companies listed in Standard & Poor's 500 large American firms have some ties to South Africa. If they all pull out, the argument goes, the U.S. will lose its chance to influence the government. Many blacks will be deprived of jobs in the American firms, which generally offer considerable racial equality. Groups like the World Bank argue that all of black Africa would be adversely affected by divestment, because economic growth on the continent...
...went to films with multiple passports. The jury prizes (first and second runners-up) were awarded to Birdy, an American film directed and produced by Englishmen, and Colonel Redl, a period political drama made under German, Austrian and Hungarian aegis. The choice for best actor was American Star William Hurt, playing an imprisoned homosexual in the Brazilian film Kiss of the Spider Woman, based on a novel by the Argentine Manuel Puig. Insignificance, which took the technical prize, was the official British entry, but its setting (Manhattan), cast (including Tony Curtis) and characters (fictionalized renderings of Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio...
From nowhere -- well, Yugoslavia, actually -- came one of the few entries to uphold the standard of defiantly indigenous "little" films, Emir Kusturica's Papa's Away on a Business Trip. A brutal, poignant, exuberant story of a family rent by political and sexual chicanery, Papa boasts nary a Hurt nor a Kinski among its actors, and earned every frond of Cannes's grand prize, the Palme...