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...dang tree is in the way," complained a silver-haired woman to her husband as they threaded their way through the mob...
...promise of "religious war." Reagan ended his speech with his "shining city upon a hill" peroration, a vision of the sunny uplands of America's future. Buchanan ended his speech too with a vision of America at its best: a couple of soldiers pointing M-16s at a mob of fellow (presumably black and Hispanic) Americans...
...reception was no friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...
Hence Hoffa, an utterly externalized view of the corrupt, crusading boss of the Teamsters, James R. Hoffa. The R stood for Riddle, and David Mamet's lean script is content to leave him at that. Hoffa does stuff -- bullies management, connives with the Mob -- but who is he? The movie gives not a clue. Jack Nicholson looks eerily like his subject, and he has the abrupt gestures and staccato voice of a man who overcomes lack of eloquence by force of will. But director Danny DeVito, who also plays Hoffa's closest ally, gets way too fond...
...last week's calamity. But Rao also shares some responsibility. He believed repeated assurances from Advani that the mosque would not be damaged. The Prime Minister, a wily parliamentary veteran whose preferred tactics are delay, discussion and compromise, underestimated the ruthlessness of the militants. By the time a screaming mob attacked the mosque with pickaxes, rods and bare hands, no party or government authority seemed able or willing to stop...