Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Antonio, three-quarters or more of the buildings were no longer habitable. In San Bernardo, five died when a church wall collapsed on a Roman Catholic $ congregation. Said Juan Andres Bravo, who had been helping serve Mass when the tremor struck: "It was a scene from Dante's Inferno. Horrible...
...INFERNO LIKE DRESDEN MUST NEVER BE REPEATED! proclaimed one banner, its white letters imprinted on a scarlet background. EUROPE WANTS NO EUROSHIMA! exclaimed another; SOCIALISM, PEACE, FREEDOM, declared a third. In the streets, toddlers waved tiny red flags with the hammer and sickle, and huge portraits of Marx, Lenin and Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko bobbed above a crowd of some 150,000 gathered at the Theaterplatz. From a platform emblazoned with the dove of peace, East German Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker faced the blackened ruins of the city's cathedral and, without a trace of irony, intoned: "Today Dresden...
...there had been passengers, all of them would have died in the inferno. That disappointed federal officials, since the most important goal of the test had been to see if a big fire could be prevented. The jet's 12,000 gal. of fuel contained an experimental anti-misting additive, years in development, that was supposed to prevent escaping fuel from forming a cloud of mist and then igniting into a deadly fireball. The test had been set up so that fuel would spill and be given a good chance to burn: the wings were shredded...
...inferno kills hundreds and devastates a teeming shantytown...
...after all, having a confessional chat with God as the play begins. John Lee Beatty's set is furnished with the spare elegance of a waiting room in limbo; the back wall suggests an opaque view of the hell one creates with other people. Quentin's inferno has been stoked by his belief that love in its modern forms - friendship, political idealism, familial responsibility, courtly lust - can conquer all. As he discovers in remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues in fair and foul weather, his bitter first wife and Maggie...