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Aikman told the audience about his experiences covering the Tiananmen Square rebellion in 1989 and reporting from Eastern Europe during the Cold...
...herself against moving cars, attempting suicide. With background music, the scene is almost funny, until the audience slowly understands what they are actually witnessing from Faber's voice-over. The intense opening sets up the video's exploration of female madness in history as both a spectacle and a rebellion. "Delirium" is so visually engaging that images move almost too quickly from the screen. At the same time, Faber doesn't trivialize her subject by imposing a numbing MTV aesthetic. "Delirium" achieves a sensitive balance between her mother's story and Faber's own, showing what it was like...
...lots of stuff to support the 'L.A. rebellion,'" she says, referring to the outbreak of violence after the Rodney King verdict...
...region's other unstable element. When the Gulf War's outcome was certain in 1991, every state in the area feared Iraq's fragmentation. Turkey, a NATO ally, was worried that Iraq's Kurds would form an independent nation and incite Turkey's own 10 million Kurds to rebellion. But the larger fear was an extension of Tehran's influence via the establishment of an Islamic fundamentalist state carved from southern Iraq. That entity, bordering Kuwait, would threaten all the gulf emirates and the oil-rich eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Which is why, as Cheney says, leaving Saddam...
...humanity, all hope that the world is making progress toward some higher plane. This year, the world gasped as genocide in its purest form raged through the country. First, the Hutu-dominated government unleashed a frenzy of killing against the minority Tutsis. Then, when the Tutsis launched a rebellion and seized the country, thousands of Hutus fled in fear to border camps. There, thousands more died from cholera and dysentery. By the time the worst had ended, as many as half a million people had died...