Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fugui and Cheungsheng search for their adopted Nationalist Army, they hear something in the distance. It builds into a roar, and their fear is tangible, Suddenly, tens of thousands of communist soldiers storm down the hill after them. Fugui and Chungsheng run, but it is futile. Like a stream of lava overtaking them, Mao's forces surround Fugui and Cheungsheng. This scene immediately distinguishes "To Live" from any other film in recent memory. It is the work of a craftsman with a lot of money to spend. It is the stuff that makes movies larger than life...
...rains eased briefly today in California, but another big storm building off-shore is expected to hit the state this weekend. Over the past nine days, more than 16 inches of rain have fallen in California, causing massive flooding and mudslides that have closed highways and dissolved property. Governor Pete Wilson added ten more counties this morning to the previous 24 listed as state disaster areas. President Clinton, who plans to visit the state early next week, has offered federal assistance to the counties suffering the heaviest damage...
Certainly Yeltsin appeared unlikely to win any cheap or easy victory. His forces could probably storm and occupy Grozny, a city of 400,000, within hours. But that would begin rather than end the war. Dudayev has called on his ! people to "strike and withdraw, strike and withdraw" until the invaders flee in "fear and terror." That was the strategy Chechen forebears followed in fighting czarist armies. They lost, but it took the Russians 47 years between 1817 and 1864 to subdue them...
...into solving local problems with each passing week. The national airport is surrounded by concertina wire, and the industrial park nearby that once housed scores of assembly plants is occupied by American troops. Crime is up, and the population is struggling with the aftereffects of last month's tropical storm Gordon, which killed more than 1,000 people...
...Literally. At the end, when the passengers are saved in an anti-climatic moment, a champagne bottle is popped open. At the performance I attended, a few audience members got wet. When the three women who serve as the sea whip sheets at the boat members to affect a storm, the sheets came dangerously close to slapping me in the face. These three women (Anatavia Marie Brown, Ji-Ho Lee, and Bianca Hovey) played their parts with a pokerface and really wailed the cast members during the "storm...