Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those tapes have now been declassified and enhanced with modern audio technology. The first complete, painstakingly verified transcripts will be published next week by Harvard University Press. Titled The Kennedy Tapes, the book is 700 pages of terror and drama, edited by historians Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow...
...creed? Not everyone would go so far as spiritual explorer Alan Watts, who once credited Buddhism with enabling him to "get out from under the monstrously oppressive God the Father." But the absence of that ultimate authority figure--and the corresponding decoupling of the notion of compassion from a terror of hell or guilt before an Almighty--was attractive. Likewise, although it contradicted the Christian notion of an individual soul, Buddhism's idea of universal interconnectedness--that, as Kerouac wrote, "there is no separation in any of it"--appealed to the Beats, as it would in a few years...
...rural Louisiana in the '60s, and in the humid swamps of the Southern Gothic imagination, tenderness and terror are first cousins destined to marry. With scary assurance, novice writer-director Kasi Lemmons invades Faulkner-McCullers territory and makes it her own. There are a few visual and character cliches, and we wish that, just once in movies, a fortune teller's dire prophecy would not automatically come true. But the folks here believe in its power, and they compel the viewer to abandon skepticism, to hide with Eve in the Batiste closet, where skeletons whisper vengeance...
...Armed Islamic Group launches a terror campaign against officials, intellectuals, journalists and foreigners. Army reprisals increase. Thousands...
...massacres intensify to barbarous new levels in a countrywide reign of terror...