Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone advises him that if and when he does launch a bid for the Presidency, the National Enquirer might ruin him by running photos of him ducking in the duel...
...well be a problem determining whether the trouble is in the set, the cable hookup or the decoder box. If the latter two, the cable operator must provide service; some operators are quick in responding to calls, others are not. Thieves tapping ineptly into a cable system can ruin cable reception for everyone on a block...
About the only thing that could ruin Candide would be slow pacing. Given enough time to dwell on the frothiness of the whole thing, many audiences might become wearied with the obvious foolishness of Dr. Pangloss and company. To guard against such a reaction, Director George Hamlin has turned Candide into a three-ring circus that moves at the speed of light. The set sprawls the width of the theater, using the balconies over the theater entrance and a walkway that cuts through the 30 or 40 seats in the pit. Actors appear from every door in the theater, sometimes...
Still, the most horrifying evidence of Amin's dictatorship is not economic ruin, but the brutal slaughter of his countrymen. Perhaps as many as 300,000 were shot, clubbed, bayoneted, hanged or strangled by Amin's secret police. It will clearly take years for Uganda to emerge from its dual nightmare of bloody terror and economic collapse...
...scene is Athens at rush hour. The city of Plato and Pericles is in a sorry state of affairs, built without a plan, lacking even adequate sewerage and sanitation facilities, hemmed in by mountains and the sea, its 135 sq. mi. crammed with 3.7 million people. Even Athens' ruins are in ruin: sulfur dioxide eats away at the marble of the Parthenon, the Erechtheum and other treasures on the Acropolis. As Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis has said, "The only solution for Athens would be to demolish half of it and start all over again...