Word: paroxysmic
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...violence that shook Kenya after a rigged vote in 2007 how leaders of his own Kalenjin tribe had whipped up ethnic tension, and paid boys to kill people and torch homes. His testimony helped prove that the violence was a well-organized political power play rather than some paroxysm of tribal rage. But now, like many others who testified alongside him, Victor (not his real name) gets text messages threatening him with death. He can't find work, other Kalenjin shun him, and strange men attacked his eight-year-old son as the boy walked back from school...
...inseparable from the story they enliven and enhance. The show's centerpiece, of course, is Billy's dancing, which ranges from tap numbers to classical ballet, as well as a striking Act I finale in which Billy, his chance at an audition thwarted, erupts into an emotional, free-form paroxysm of frustration and anger. But Peter Darling's choreography is perhaps most impressive in the intricately staged group numbers like "Solidarity," which brings together lines of cops, strikers and Billy's dance class for a pas de trois that both propels the story and stops the show...
...conservative society like Malaysia - but for his part, Zakii claims they are not about sex. "I've had very little trouble with them," he says. The only incident he can think of involved a Malaysian-Chinese collector who converted to Christianity and then destroyed several canvases in a paroxysm of piety...
...since then, this nation of 1 million has largely stagnated. Gang violence paralyzes the streets of capital Dili. Incomes haven't increased, while malnutrition is up. And citizens are still reeling from another paroxysm of violence that erupted last year after an army revolt went sour, resulting in dozens of deaths. Tens of thousands of people still live in refugee camps, too afraid to return home. U.N. peacekeepers again patrol the streets...
...After the disasters of Somalia, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, tiny East Timor was supposed to prove that nation building was a feasible exercise. An independence referendum in 1999 forced the Indonesians out, but not before departing soldiers and sympathetic local militias practically leveled the country in a paroxysm of violence that claimed hundreds of lives. All in all, up to 200,000 East Timorese are believed to have perished during the Indonesian occupation. Determined to help reconstruct a country that had been birthed in such chaos, the U.N. set up shop in 1999. A constitution was written, universities were...