Word: ironized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...resilience; she can be knocked down, but never counts herself out. Among her relatives are some whose resistance to the Peacock Throne had led to their confinement and torture. When the clerics take over, Marji shows her defiance in ways both adolescent and forthright. She'll buy an Iron Maiden CD on the black market, and in school she tells her black-scarved teacher, "We've gone from 3,000 [political] prisoners under the Shah to 300,000 under you." The film tracks Marjane's growing pains (shown literally, with body parts expanding in a split second), her love affairs...
...colonists managed to build a 30-ton, 50-ft., shallow-draft vessel they named Virginia, which explored the coast and crossed the Atlantic twice. Four hundred years later, Maine is still recognized as home to the best boat builders in the world. From elegant yachts to Bath Iron Works' naval destroyers, Maine is celebrating 400 years of shipbuilding heritage...
...Hosseinis' absence Kabul was devastated. Several times. After a decade-long occupation, the Soviets were ousted by a murderer's row of warlords who immediately started annihilating one another, in the process bestowing generous collateral damage on the civilian populace. Order was finally restored by the iron lash of the Taliban, who brutalized Kabul for another seven years. When help finally arrived it was in the form of yet another invasion, this time...
...These four years have been packed with strikeouts, weak dribblers up the middle, blown saves, and even a few caught stealings, none of which are baseball metaphors. So we try to only concentrate on this last year when we ruled the school with both an open door and an iron fist. But that makes us seem even more terrible, especially since we wouldn’t tell anyone about the 18-inch iron fist until they had come through our open door and we had locked it behind them...
...leave you underclassmen in the hands of two kids who carry more currency in the form of expired Subway Club Cards than cash in their wallets. Remember that Wisconsin is a friendly place, our door is always open, the Ad Board confiscated our iron fist months ago, and most importantly, that “I need a place to sleep” is not a pick-up line, but the honest truth...