Word: salvadore
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...kind of war that has faced Colombia for decades can last for decades more. In Angola and El Salvador, countries that also faced guerilla movements, war led to the exhaustion of the warring parties, and, subsequently, peace. Though thousands are killed in Colombia each year, the vast majority are civilians. The government has not been able to put up enough resistance to appreciably wear down the rebels. Whenever the guerillas need a few years to rest and acquire fresh recruits and better weapons, they need only agree to a cease-fire and receive the laurels of the international community...
...late 1920s came the movement's narrative period, in which Magritte and Salvador Dali excelled. Magritte's 1926 The Threatened Murderer could practically serve as a film storyboard. It depicts two menacing life-sized detectives - wearing Magritte bowler hats, to be sure - waiting in hiding to pounce on a respectable-looking murderer still hovering near the nude body of his female victim. The picture seems spookily sympathetic to the murderer. The Surrealists, in fact, sometimes admired criminals as creative rule breakers...
...years later, Pinochet's "refinement of the recipe" ended up "passing the flavor back" in the form of free-market Thatcherism. But Beckett takes no more than a fleeting glimpse at the U.S., which played a central role in the coup in which Chile's democratically elected Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, died. Chile is still coming to terms with the horrors that followed. While Pinochet, now 86, has been deemed - in both Britain and Chile - too ill to face trial, activists still call for Henry Kissinger to be prosecuted. U.S. Secretary of State at the time of the coup...
...what a carnival of otherwordly weirdness this alternative World Cup starter turns out to be. Think costumes by Vivienne Westwood and stage directions by Salvador Dali. Each of the teams is led out by the silicone jiggle of a "ladyboy" (Thailand's English term for transsexuals) to the off-key oom-pah-pahs of the prison brass band. Stubble shows through sweat-beaded pancake as the transsexuals teeter in stiletto heels on the turf. Miss Nigeria has an Afro wig, Miss England a ball gown and crown. Miss Japan is mincing in a kimono. Miss America has a jerry-rigged...
After the Crimson tied the game at 12-12, with Crockett doing his best Randy Johnson impersonation by coming in for two key outs in the top of the ninth, San Salvador hit a walk-off home run to left that ended an improbable comeback and put the Crimson in the driver’s seat...