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Despite Moscow's grim new repression in Eastern Europe, Communism's Asian face still wears the harsher visage. Distracted by the rush of events in the West, the world has all but forgotten the continuing torment of Tibet, which was first invaded in 1950 by the Communist Chinese army and again two years ago by screaming Red Guards. Those successive onslaughts have transformed the land of Shangri-la into a nightmarish Himalayan hell...
...shop at eleven and migrated three years later to the U.S., where he took anatomy courses at the University of Southern California in an effort to devise ways of making shoes more comfortable. He was, he said, "consumed with anger and compassion for all those who walk in torment...
...Ibos concluded that the Hausa tribesmen fully intended to use the war to systematically exterminate them. This fear, more than anything else, has hardened the Biafran determination to fight on to the end. "We shall all return to our villages and homes, if necessary behind enemy lines, and torment and harass them at every turn," says Ojukwu...
...book, Albert Handley-a middle-aged madcap painter presiding over a whole circus of a family in Lincolnshire-rages against the sudden wealth and new-found fame threatening his old bohemian way of life. His children pester him for money, journalists hound him for interviews. Visions of unborn paintings torment his days and nights. He, too, claims to be a revolutionary-making money so that he can tear down the social structure that feeds...
...human face desolate in its frustrations. As on the London and New York stage, the demanding role of Maitland is enacted by Nicol Williamson, a player of explosive passion. Williamson does not merely perform; he lays his life on the line. His eyes are wells of mocking, melancholy torment that seem to see and sear every filmgoer in the house...