Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only conceivable purpose behind all this ridiculous symbolism is to convince the audience that these terrorists are lower on the evolutionary chart than were the Nazis. They are in fact so subhuman that we aren't supposed to care when we see the Americans slaughter hundreds of Muslims later on in the film. But this doesn't explain why screenwriters James Bruner and Golan choose to inform us that one of the terrorists had a young daughter who was killed by the Israelis. Are they Nazis or victims or both? To be honest, I haven't lost too much sleep...
While reporters interviewed the surviving families, some viewers tensed-up and turned their heads away, as if witnessing animals off to the slaughter, as if impulsively averting some vicarious blow. When the families cried out, or held their heads in their hands, or put their arms around one another, or stared in mute terror, the same people who'd noticed how nervous Rather looked, how worn-out, how disgusted, how much his hands shook, the same people cursed him, and called him an S.O.B., and said that the networks were heartless, and vicious, and lacking in ethics, and wanting...
...majority opinion, along with President Reagan, calls on our European allies to sever economic relations with Libya, which has been flimsily termed a "terrorist state" by disturbing numbers of centrists as well as the right. All this furor results from some recent acts of irrational slaughter that claimed fewer than 50 civilians--a trivial toll in comparison with, for example, the Lebanese citizens killed during the Israeli occupation of that country, or for that matter with last year's butchery by U.S.-funded Nicaraguan "contras" and the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa. In the recent airport attacks...
...education can be found than in the Jewish community in America. Beer points out the similarity in the two group's American backgrounds: "Both Jews and Black Americans came from impoverished and backward ghettos. Both were subject to severe legal and informal harassment for centuries, not to mention periodic slaughter.... Some find it incredible that Jews come from a background similar to theirs...
...problem, for the past 100 years, has been paying for them. As the land-owning families of England were depleted by the long agricultural depression of the late 19th century, by the introduction of death duties and by the slaughter of their sons in the First World War, so their houses declined. In the century from 1875 to 1975, over 1,100 were demolished, more than half of them since...