Word: rains
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...Hutu threat intensifies, indigenous tribes have been fighting back. North of Goma a militia calling itself the Bangalima, after a famous tribe of warriors from the central Zairian rain forest, recently launched a series of attacks on Zairian army posts and local Hutu. Avid fetishists, often fighting naked and using charms that they believe turn enemy bullets into water, the Bangalima fighters have sworn to drive all Hutu from Zaire. A letter received last month by the local representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees threatened a "bloodbath" in the refugee camps if all 750,000 Hutu were...
...depends on the rain," he said. "If it rains, we're going to see 'Independence...
...historians the artworks are much more than gorgeous museum pieces. If the Olmec ever had a written language, all traces of it have disappeared. Even their bones are gone, rotted long ago in the humid rain forest. Virtually everything that scholars know about them is based on the remains of cities and on comparisons between their artifacts and imagery and those of later civilizations. It isn't surprising, therefore, that while the experts have plenty of theories about the Olmec's origins, social structure and religion, few of these ideas are universally accepted...
...classical into the forms of common life, and doing it so subtly that you're scarcely aware of them at first. Homer went to London in 1881 and then settled in the village of Cullercoats on the coast, near Newcastle. He painted the fisherfolk: the men, massive in their rain-slicked oilskins, and the women mending nets and waiting on shore. The distended shapes of windblown clothes give these already robust female figures a sculptural air: you feel the gale blowing their aprons into spinnakers. Homer had to have been looking at the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum, with...
...camera was in love with him, as long as he moved. And silent-film star Douglas Fairbanks was the man who put the movies in motion. He climbed trees, rain spouts, a snake charmer's rope, a church facade. (Take the stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another...