Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, many Israelis fear this is only the beginning of a new terror offensive like the one last year that drove Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres from office. Allowing even one bombing to happen, though, will boomerang harshly on the Palestinians. Israel immediately closed off the territories and promised retaliation; Netanyahu has always kept open the option of sending Israeli troops back into the areas now under Palestinian control. Even worse, he might decide to use the bombing as a pretext to abandon, once and for all, the talks he has always opposed...
...actors do their part, pretending to speak their lines and offering appropriately comedic or horrific facial expressions, but ultimately they are only playing caricatures. The costumes are brightly colored and straight out of a carnival, making the mock terror of Caligari's Grand Guignol play seem ridiculously stylized...
...century, we have seen the mixed blessings of the relentless march of scientific "progress." Science conquered polio, but it also gave us the atom bomb. We live in a time when scientific ingenuity lights up our eyes with wonder even as it frightens us with the prospect of technological terror. The stinging criticism of Dolly is in part the sigh of a world community exhausted by the ethical dilemmas presented by science in the last sixty years...
...Educated as an economist, Barnevik left a management-consulting job to help a troubled Swedish steel company. Success there led to the ceo spot at Asea, a large electrical-engineering firm then in decline. Barnevik carried out a radical and initially painful shake-up, dubbed "Percy's reign of terror...
...Lost Highway had preceded Wild at Heart (or Eraserhead or Blue Velvet), it might give off a sense of otherworldly menace. But we've visited this planet before, become familiar with its obsessions and grotesqueries until they hold as little terror as garden gnomes. And while it's always a tonic in this timid film age to see directors try something different, Lost Highway is the same different. Someone should tell Lynch that noir is a genre, but weird...