Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election-eve bombings are more likely to signal the last gasp of a weak, splintered racist Afrikaner minority than the start of the long-threatened great Boer revolt. Three of the 32 arrested are close to Terreblanche, including leaders of his personal bodyguard unit, the elite Iron Guard. The long, resolute march of democracy has caused deepening divisions within the white right. "The bombing campaign," says Wim Booyse, a political consultant in Pretoria, amounts to "a struggle for control of the heart of the right wing...
...content with the light-hearted story of a young television comedy writer and the aging movie hero he idolizes, the perpetrators of the musical version of My Favorite Year threw in an idiotic subplot straight out of Iron John. Benjy Stone (the write) now worships Alan Swann (the movie star) not just for his cinematic derring-do but as a substitute father-figure in place of his own who "went out for cigarettes and never came back." This moronic blunting of the relationship between the two (in the original movie, Benjy's deceased father is mentioned exactly once) is introduced...
...Yale undergraduates might even feel safe walking the two blocks to Wawa--New Haven's equivalent of Store 24--to buy a Coke a night. One day, all of the huge iron fences which surround "Fortress Yale" might not be locked so tightly...
...Topeka Foundry & Iron Works last week, the setting was new, but the set was familiar: klieg lights, blue-draped dais, place cards, Congressmen, a sprinkling of average Americans and the President, headlining another health- care forum. The audience of 150 Kansas business owners was treated to the spectacle of the nation's President, looking every bit the Accountant in Chief, doing business math for a Mexican-restaurant owner, a flower-shop owner, an architect, a construction-company owner and a farmer. Their chief concern was how much money they personally would fork over if his plan became law. Regina Jaramillo...
...discovery provided grim evidence of the harshness of 17th century life. Hair analysis showed that Anne Calvert took medicines containing arsenic and that she had an iron deficiency -- suggesting that she had been subjected to bloodletting for an illness. After more study, including DNA analysis to confirm the child's identity, the Calverts will be reburied -- this time in properly marked graves...