Word: terrorizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quality of German visual art has traditionally been downplayed by a Francocentric version of art history, so that-especially for those born between 1930 and 1945- there were relatively few vivid images of a civilized "modernist" Germany to set against the overwhelming iconography of Nazi terror. Now this is changing. "Paris-Berlin" comes hard on the heels of a splendid group of exhibitions mounted in Berlin last fall by the Council of Europe under the general title "Trends of the '20s." They focused on German Dada, on the Bauhaus and its circle, and on international constructivism. "Paris-Berlin" overlaps...
...indeed strange that on the very evening of the famous Bakke decision ABC-TV aired a frightening documentary. The film, titled Youth Terror, a View from Behind the Gun, was about the millions of hopelessly lost and bitter minorities in the urban ghettos of this country...
...More like a short story, Watson. And hardly new. A Mr. Ellery Queen will have already written A Study in Terror in 1966, postulating that Jack was an aristocrat named the Duke of Shires. Other literature will theorize that the killer was a Scotland Yard inspector or a member of the royal family...
...morning after, embalmers performed their grisly work over open rows of caskets, six of them the small and white coffins of children. Some of the blackened bodies were still curled as if to shield themselves from the heat, and many faces still wore expressions of terror. Yet Los Alfaques would not remain a scene of death for long. Not far away from the formation of caskets, at the end of the camp that had escaped the blast, surviving children had already returned to playing on the beach...
Just back home from a meeting with Pope Paul last fortnight, Romero ascended the pulpit of his still unfinished cathedral and unleashed one of his regular hour-long sermons about the tyranny and terror all around him. He is a small man and his voice is low-keyed, but it is strong and steady. Newspapers almost daily vilify him as corrupt, insane, as a Communist, as a man who "sells his soul to the Devil." They never print the news his sermons contain...