Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Authorities in Warsaw were getting ready for a possible confrontation. Addressing a tense session of parliament, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski announced that special army units would join police to suppress "deepening anarchy, hooliganism, antistate and anti-Soviet excesses." He implied that force might be used unless Solidarity retreated from the boldly political demands it had adopted at the first Gdansk session two weeks earlier. That meeting had called for free democratic elections, worker control of industrial enterprises and-most provocative of all-the spread of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet-controlled East bloc...
...Irish of the 1840s are presented (with some historical accuracy) as equivalent to the slaves in Roots-penniless, helpless, but more open and loving than their oppressors, more family oriented and especially more sexual. The English are schematically divided. The wicked are defined as those who try to suppress the Irish; their victims nonetheless eventually rise to wealth through suffering (a theme of Rich Man, Poor Man). Virtue among the good English is measured by willingness to subordinate their lives to the Irish cause. Despite mechanical plotting, the first two hours evoke a world that can still outrage...
...that he originally offered his resignation to Khomeini but that the Ayatullah refused to publish it and instead chose to outlaw him. If he had been allowed to withdraw legally, Banisadr claims, he would have represented a dangerous rallying force against Khomeini. Rather than allow that, Khomeini tried to suppress him altogether...
...lectern, he read out a grim check list of Poland's woes: increasing consumer shortages, falling production, a crushing foreign debt, renewed strike threats. Alluding to possible unrest, and citing the party's "trust in the army," the general turned politician implied a willingness to suppress future disorders with military force...
...producer and star, and her husband John, as director and cinematographer, have basted together a new Tarzan, which the descendants of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs tried futilely to suppress. The story is familiar and faithful: Jane Parker (Bo) and her great white hunter father (Richard Harris) trek through the jungle and find the Ape Man (Miles O'Keeffe). But the plot is so much crinoline for Bo to shuck before cavorting au naturel with Tarzan or monkeying around with wildlife...