Word: thunderation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life. Last week, after pondering the possibility of being jailed for his silence, Kgase decided to talk. And what he had to say in Johannesburg's Rand Supreme Court against Winnie Mandela, the wife of African National Congress (A.N.C.) leader Nelson Mandela, resounded like a clap of thunder. Yes, said Kgase, Mandela and her bodyguards were guilty as charged: they savagely beat him and three other young black men in her Soweto home in December...
IMAGINE HOW FOOLISH major historical events would seem had previous generations been made to use the same glorified silly putty that is forced upon us. Martin Luther gumming his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenburg Church just doesn't resonate with theological thunder. Nebuchadnezzer's Hanging Gardens of Babylon wouldn't have stayed up had he trusted the gum. And the ancient Romans would have been hard pressed to devise a method of execution that used poster gum instead of nails, unless they had been diabolical enough to realize that protracted attempts to use the stuff can themselves weaken...
...rather than star power. These films succeeded beyond all hopes in a year when studios shelled out $30 million to $60 million to make films with big-name stars and fancy productions. Many of these budget busters (among them: Another 48 Hrs., The Bonfire of the Vanities, Days of Thunder and Rocky V ) fell short of expectations or flopped outright...
Just before 1 a.m. in the Middle East, pool reporters at U.S. air bases in Saudi Arabia heard and felt the ground-shaking thunder of wave after wave of jets taking off. The planes headed north toward Kuwait and Iraq. At about the same time, more jets were winging off six U.S. carriers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. Eventually, about 2,000 planes of the U.S. and six allied nations -- Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Saudi Arabia and the Kuwaiti government-in- exile -- hit targets throughout Iraq and Kuwait (though the French, - independent even when submitting to American command...
Offstage, the distant thunder of great events. In the background, an exotic city, sleepless, decadent and aswarm with corrupt and conniving characters. In the foreground, a displaced American male hides his latent idealism under a shady manner, and a displaced European woman hides her latent sexuality under the guise of loyalty to her husband and the outlawed political cause to which he has made a passionate and dangerous commitment...