Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, since the Irish Republican Army began its bombing campaigns in the early 1970s, London has struggled to deal with terrorism. Downing Street, where the Prime Minister's residence is located, is now closed off by iron gates and car barriers. In the Underground system and many other public places, litter baskets-an easy place to plant bombs-have been removed. In July 1993, after the ira exploded two bombs in London's financial center, the 1-sq.-mi. district called the City, officials threw a "ring of steel" around the area. Smaller streets have been closed...
...movie about the former heavyweight champ portraysMike Tysonas an emotionally vacant young man devoid of any inner drive to win. With George C. Scott as trainer Cus D'Amato, Paul Winfield as Don King and newcomer Michael Jai White as Tyson, the movie shows "Iron Mike without an iron will" says TIME reviewer Gina Bellafante. However, it fails to offer any insight into the boxer's psychology. "Fallen heroes always retain a certain mystery, but they needn't be this inscrutable."Previous TIME Daily
Matt A. Stewart '98 is sporting an Adidas-esque t-shirt with a sparkly iron-on decal of an alien and the slogan "Take Me To Your Leader." When questioned about the statement his shirt is making, Stewart says, "It sort of expresses some of the existentialist alienation that I feel." Who is his leader? "Gina Grant...
...alcohol's rapturous tendrils. In the evening, lying in bed reading, I could taste it--pure alcohol, with a slightly sweet touch. I hadn't had a drink in days, but I could taste it as clearly as the first time. I resolved to control myself with an iron hand from then onward. After all, I didn't drink for any psychological effect--atypical drinker that I am--just for the taste...
SINCE THE IRON CURTAIN FIRST started to tear in the early '80s, music lovers in the West have been exposed to a number of previously unknown composers whose reputations were obscured by the rigid Soviet system, among them Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Shnitke. Now comes a man who may well be the most important composer to emerge from the old Soviet Union since Dmitri Shostakovich: Giya Kancheli, 59, whose dolorous yet spiritually radiant music gives eloquent voice to the ongoing tragedy of his native Georgia...