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...forbids him access to their daughter, and the maneuver sends him in short, beautifully logical steps up the scale of frustration from startled hurt to an outrage that is almost lethally self-destructive. By the end he has kidnaped Georgie and precipitated an armed confrontation with the riot squad. Unlike the male anger that brought Shoot the Moon to its dissatisfying conclusion, this rage is explicated. We have watched it grow out of the relationship's contentious core, and we know whom to blame for its explosion, a wife who has tried to score one point too many...
After a day of rioting, the entire city of Rafah (pop. 80,000) in the Gaza Strip was placed under curfew by Israeli authorities. When East Jerusalem's Supreme Muslim Council called for a protest march to the Temple Mount, Israeli riot police and troops moved in and arrested 32 of the leaders before the marchers had taken ten steps. Shaking with fury, a prominent East Jerusalem resident, Anwar Nusseibeh, declared: "The transgression on the Temple Mount was not against us; it was against the values of everyone who believes in God. All we intended to do today...
...City in the late 1960s, when he founded the Jewish Defense League. Kahane seeks to drive all Palestinians out of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. "I want to remove the Arabs of Israel because I do not want to kill them every week as they grow and riot," he once wrote...
...Blass/ Ronald Reagan's mamma's going strictly first class." The ditty elicited rousing applause and, to the surprise of everyone, a bold, well-prepared rejoinder from the First Lady. As a garment rack was dramatically wheeled out from the wings, Nancy strode onstage-in a veritable riot of pantaloons, yellow rubber boots, an aqua skirt with red and yellow flowers, a feathered boa and a floppy feathered hat. Only the third First Lady to tread the Gridiron boards, but the very first to sing-Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter in years past had danced a few steps...
...stadium waiting to see his verdict, he tried to make the best of an extremely poor situation by pointing to the stands, jumping in the air, and signalling "home run" as emphatically as possible. However, the ball had landed 20 feet foul and before they called out the riot dogs. Luciano humbly changed his call...