Word: sides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is a flip side to my argument that dressing unconventionally is the way to go. A person (usually of the teenage persuasion) might dress as outlandish as possible, but only to get attention. That may be amusing for a while. Rebelling against conformity is extremely important, especially in our heavily advertising-oriented consumer society. But there comes a point where rebelling just to rebel against conformity becomes, ironically, enough conformist in and of itself...
...deserted corner of the backwoods and, after a struggle, chained him to the truck by his ankles. Then they dragged him for three miles along a rural road outside Jasper. Byrd was alive for the first two miles, a pathologist testified at trial, and deliberately twisted his body from side to side, trying to keep his head from hitting the pavement. He may have been conscious at the time of his death, when his head was finally torn off by a concrete drainage culvert. Lawmen later found Byrd's head and upper torso, including his right arm, shoulder and neck...
...South, wrote Faulkner, the past isn't dead; it's not even past. That must have seemed all too true when Byrd was buried last June--on the black side of the Jasper City Cemetery, still segregated in 1998. But the truth is that Jasper has progressed a great deal since pre-civil rights days, and Byrd's killing has moved things along even further. Shortly before jury selection, 75 blacks and whites met at the cemetery to cut down the wrought-iron fence that separated the two races even in death. "Give us the power and the strength through...
...designed to avoid answering the question at the heart of this Balkan war: Should Kosovo be an independent state? "The beauty of the interim accord is that no one has to give up their dreams," explains U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill. "We've created this gray thing that one side will call an elephant and the other will call a mouse." Trouble is, some members of the Albanian delegation saw through that and demanded a written guarantee of eventual independence. No way, said NATO. "Sure, they can ask for it," Hill adds, "but getting it is another matter. Today, the international...
Cage looks good on screen, dressed completely in black with a cigarette jutting out the side of his mouth, and his controlled presence is one reason why 8MM is such a strong, gripping thriller. The great strength of Walker's script is the way it plays on the viewer's emotions more and more as the story unfolds. When first viewed, the events on the eight millimeter film are shocking in their barbarity but not emotionally overwhelming because the girl is just a face with no identity. But as the plot develops, the viewer learns of the girl's past...