Word: reigning
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...elaborate version of the theme that solders his five earlier films: the collision between British culture and anarchic nature, a conflict that virtually defines the Australian experience. The scene is Indonesia in 1965, as the Sukarno government stumbles toward a coup that will eventually end the strongman's reign. In the streets, Communist marchers sing revolutionary songs with Whiffenpoof harmonies; in the white man's clubs, journalists and diplomats slug back their Scotch and try to forget that the good imperial days have vanished into Third World arrogance. Among the Caucasians are Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson...
...sunshine broke through after four years of gloom. Michael S. Dukakis, taking the oath of office, was beginning his term as governor of the Commonwealth. Only minutes before, Edward J. King had walked out the front door and down the steps, leaving behind the havoc of his reign...
...crystal totem at its center. The setting is "another world, another time, in the Age of Wonder." A war between the benevolent Mystics (who look like shaggy-dog anteaters) and the evil Skeksis (pustular vultures) has obliterated all but a few of each. Under the Skeksis' whimsically sadistic reign, virtually every member of the industrious elfin race of Gelflings has been slaughtered. Only two remain-Jen, a young male, and the girl Kira-to replace the crystal's missing shard and set the world aright again...
Will scores of the condemned die soon? Advocates on both sides of the issue mostly agree that no reign of terror is imminent; there might be several more executions next year but not several dozen. Notes Lawyer David Kendall, who represents death-row inmates: "People have said the floodgates would open every time we've had an execution, and they haven't yet." But as appeals are exhausted, a steady trickle may well begin...
...many Americans and other Westerners, however, the Soviet accumulation of nuclear arms represents something far more menacing. The weapons proliferated so rapidly and so massively during the 18 years of Brezhnev's reign that they conveyed the impression of a juggernaut. American deployments during the same period, while formidable in their own right, tended to occur more in fits and starts...