Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...martinis and her own bile. Yet put aside the thought that she was rattling herself to pieces, and the very lines of her droopy complexion are as weirdly captivating as strange tattoos. Even if Avedon never had in mind Rilke's claim that "beauty's nothing/but the start of terror we can hardly bear," he knows something about...
...English parents, Belfrage made her first journalistic foray in 1959 with A Room in Moscow, a report on daily life in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. She went on to join the fabled freedom riders in the early 1960s, registering blacks to vote and recording her feelings of terror and triumph in the 1965 book Freedom Summer. Her other works include Living with War, based on a year in the urban battleground of Belfast in Northern Ireland, and an autobiography to be published later this year...
...says Paris assistant district attorney Patrick Lalande. "They will tell you that they treat their opponents abroad just as they treat them at home and that this is a purely domestic affair." Western governments do not agree but find it hard to stand up to Iran's state-backed terror. The Bakhtiar case, with a trail of evidence that leads right into Tehran's ministries, is a major test of France's resolve. The trial, which could start as soon as next June, is more likely to open in the fall and could possibly be delayed until early 1995. Given...
...downer, I figured. Not so. In a series of astonishing cuts (of two different kinds), Hitchcock gets away with, well, murder. He shows us the approach of Mother through the shower curtain, which would theoretically dull the effect of the attack that follows, without lessening the primal terror we feel when she does attack one bit. The shower runs throughout the scene (and well into the following one), draining the blood in a forshadowing of Norman's own obsessive cleaning...
...Terror on the Brooklyn Bridge...