Word: transylvanian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Edward Scissorhands Spooky-cute Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder -- they look like the figures on a Transylvanian wedding cake -- make ideally mismatched lovers in Tim Burton's witty fable, in which a sweet-souled alien comes to suburbia, makes a few friends and scurries back home. E.T., meet...
...pastor of the Hungarian Reformed Church in the Transylvanian city of & Timisoara, the Rev. Laszlo Tokes seemed an unlikely figure to spark a revolution. But Tokes, 37, possessed a sharp tongue at a time when that attribute was rare in Rumania. Not only did he lash out against the tyrannical regime in Bucharest, but he even accused Hungarian Reformed Church leaders of collaborating with communist authorities...
...streets, running, jumping, riding on tanks. "The army is with us!" they shouted. "We are the people!" Crowds stormed Ceausescu's palace and rushed to the state television studio to put out the message "We won. The dictator has fallen." Ceausescu's son Nicu, party chief in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (pop. 173,000), was captured and paraded before the cameras. His face was bruised, and his eyes flicked in terror from side to side, as if seeking a way to escape...