Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refugee whose own exploits mirrored those of Dith Pran's. Perhaps his lack of thespian training accounts for the excessive Oriental inscrutability his brings to his part. But then living in the paranoid hell of Cambodia made silence and inconspicuousness golden virtues. In fact, Ngor's most effective scenes occur when he doesn't speak at all. After Pran is exiled to a rural concentration camp, he must struggle to appear nothing more than a simple peasant. His Khmer Rouge, captors, constantly suspicious, address him in French and English, unsuccessfully attempting to expose him as one of the hated Westernized...
...convicted of sexually molesting two 15-year-old boys. After an appeal, the father pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, disorderly conduct. "One can hypothesize that the trauma his father sustained made him feel very helpless, motivated him to make sure that another such situation would never occur to him," suggested Psychiatrist Bessel Van Der Kolk, director of the Trauma Center of Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. Perhaps, the psychiatrist added, Goetz "took revenge for all he had suffered...
Wilson said that cases similar to the subway shooting occur constantly around the country. Indeed, in Beverly Hills on New Year's Eve, an 81-year-old retired jewelry merchant shot and killed a 26-year-old mugger with an illegal handgun. The mugger's father said that he would have fired too, and the deputy district attorney announced, "We're not going to put an 81-year-old man in jail." The incident passed with little public attention...
...First Lady ever brags of moments when her intervention changed the course of events. But surely these moments occur. A First Lady is at least half of every presidency and on some days more...
...that can contain her spirit: "No. It was impossible to incarnate herself in the cat. She was afraid of one day feeling in her palate, in her throat, in all her quadruped organism, the irrevocable desire to eat a mouse." What finally happens and how long it takes to occur are saved for a not very surprising conclusion...