Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much of the violence. To keep order in the camp, they have depended mostly on a Cuban security force armed with broom handles, tree limbs and even a few billy clubs and knives. Originally the group was supposed to be small and well organized, but scores of hardened thugs stole the force's symbol of authority-purple jackets donated by the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater-and proclaimed themselves a part of the security force called the Warhawks, after the school's nickname. Some of the Warhawks then used their weapons to rob and terrorize other refugees. According...
Ramos grew up watching the South Bronx being burned alive, building by building, block by block. When he turned eleven, he was already a man. As initiation to a street gang called the Sons of Satan, he had to run a bloody, 20-yd. gauntlet of flaying fists. "I stole, beat up on people, hit on my teachers," Ramos confesses, "just to prove I was bad and not a punk." He had seen a dozen men shot or stabbed over drug deals and street-corner dice games. He had faced a man with a revolver who was threatening to blow...
...voice of Comedian Stan Laurel. Although he was unmusical offscreen, he could become an opera star if the part required it. "Peter couldn't sing a bloody note," recalled Actor Wilfrid Hyde-White. "Yet when he sang Caruso, he took high Cs like Caruso." Throughout his career, Sellers stole or copied mannerisms of people he came across. First, he said, "I work on the voice. Perhaps this comes from my radio days. After that I establish how the character walks. And then suddenly something strange happens. The person takes over. I stare at my own image in the mirror...
...earlobe and a face as seamed and leathery as a football left out in the Texas sun-looks like the last of the red hot Muppets. No matter: the camera loves Willie Nelson. In The Electric Horseman, he simply leaned back, squinted, expectorated a few down-home aphorisms and stole a scene or two from Robert Redford. Now Nelson has been fitted for a sin-and-suffer role out of a '30s weepie-the Leslie Howard part in Intermezzo, to be precise-and he wears it as comfortably as a pair of custom-made boots...
...paloverde tree. Sprawled about them were the bodies of ten women and a smuggler. Suitcases had been ripped apart in a search for anything with moisture. The group had drunk perfume and aftershave lotion. Some had been hallucinating, swallowing sand they thought was water. One woman cried: "The coyotes stole my baby!" The agents scrambled to find the infant, only to learn days later that the child had been left in El Salvador...