Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trek the 10 blocks from their office, which they call, in a motherly way, their "house--the large and impressive second floor of a building located a stone's throw away from the Congress. Its walls bear the eerie reminder of the dirty war: thousands of black and white snap-shots, each with a name and a date, hang in solemn rows behind protective glass; and the shelves of an overflowing glass case sag under the weight of homemade trinkets sent to the mothers as gifts of moral support from all over the world. Here the mothers meet and work...
Harriman was never a brilliant strategic thinker, but he could be shrewd. Often plodding yet at times strikingly bold, detached yet intense, he would seem half asleep at meetings, until someone uttered a fatuous remark. Then he would snap the offender's head off. His nickname in the Kennedy Administration was "the Crocodile...
...somewhat predictably but certainly humourously, all Hell breaks loose. They get mugged trying to make a drug bust: "Come on," they say to their teeny bopper assailants, "let us keep the snap shots--and the badges." Their respective ex-wives with whom they are still in loved or at least in lust, abandon them for other guys. And the work on their big case, a sort of Puerto Rican Godfather story, goes awry...
...with the bloodlust of pro wrestling. As the Red Knight attacks Blue with his mace and Blue responds with his sword, a spectator cries out, "Your mutha wears chain mail!" Schlock: Gatorland Zoo with its Gator Jumparoo show, in which thousand-pound alligators lurch out of the water to snap their jaws around dead chickens suspended from a wire. For connoisseurs of arcane Americana, the Orlando area also offers an Alligatorland Safari Zoo (feed the animals with Purina Monkey Chow), a Reptile World Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during one of our three daily venom programs...
Under the circumstances, however, popularity is not much use to Nakasone. He is forbidden by his party's constitution to serve more than two consecutive two-year terms as party president. His strategists hoped to get around that rule by calling for snap elections in the lower house of parliament late in June to boost his standing and give him the clout to change the party rules. But leaders of rival L.D.P. factions, including former Prime Ministers Takeo Fukuda and Zenko Suzuki, immediately objected to the plan...