Word: rioting
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Gordimer's actual lectures had a bit more security. "When I spoke, they said 'Well, we don't know what might happen. If there's any sort of riot breaking out, we'll slip you out this way,'" she says. "They alarmed me, in other words...
After police shot and killed a black man in the course of an arrest in Lexington, Kentucky, an angry crowd of black protesters took to downtown streets to overturn cars and pelt police and passersby with rocks and bottles. A quick show of force by police in riot gear contained the disturbance. Authorities later announced an fbi investigation into the shooting...
...Agency, apparently from some time shortly after the coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 until last spring. So Constant was getting American money when he helped the Haitian army organize FRAPH in the summer of 1993, and also a year ago when FRAPH staged a fake riot that caused the U.S.S. Harlan County to turn back from Port-au-Prince without landing any of the U.S. military personnel aboard. That was a foreign-policy disaster the Clinton Administration is only now living down...
...charm, its out-of-focus foregrounds and deranged angles -- above all, its strange new mood of cool melancholy -- were met with shock at the time. The reception it got from critics -- "warped" and "joyless" were two of the milder descriptions -- is photography's own version of the opening- night riot that greeted Stravinsky's Rite of Spring...
...kind of seemed close to a riot zone," said Engstrom. "It was their campus, and the [Boston College] students were trashing it in celebration...