Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might argue that the free market can make mistakes. Without the Fund, they say in impassioned tones, Cambridge will lose the stores that make it so distinctive and unique. The Gap will expand to take over The Coop. Unique bookstores and quaint coffee houses will be replaced by the terror of all terrors: McDonald's (And this would be a bad thing...
...setting of director John N. Smith's compelling new film "The Boys of St. Vincent," but the territory inside the cloistered stone walls provides no safe haven either. The black-clad priests of St. Vincent slip like sinister, dark shadows through the looming corridors, creating a world of terror for the young boys entrusted to their churchly protection. The orphanage is a realm of the wicked, built not only upon layers of deceitful whispers and abuse of religious power, but also upon the sadistic sexual molestation of these small boys. Smith's film cloaks itself in the robes of fiction...
...ambiguities of this man, who at one point in his life inflicted such pain on those around him. With the sudden return of his past actions. Lavin still inflicts pain on those around him, but in a radically different way. Now the camera focuses on the confusion, mistrust and terror in the eyes of his wife. She must come to grips with this former life of her husband--one which she is forced to confront every time she turns on the evening news, or looks at their two young sons...
Just as Smith so acutely mapped the emotions of the young orphans in their faces, so too is he able to convey the interior psychological experience of Lavin's wife. The therapy sessions of Lavin--his substitute for the confession he never made during his reign of terror over St. Vincent--also stand as a complex tool in probing the introspective experiences of each character involve, as well as dissecting the soul and source of brutality...
...forces give up. But Chechnya's President Dzhokhar Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, decided to play chicken. Russian forces "will be attacked from the rear in a traditional tactic of mountaineers: hit and run, hit and run, which will exhaust them until they, out of fear and terror, give up," he said on Russian...