Word: carloads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Felix Bloch, the American diplomat suspected of espionage, by last week had mushroomed beyond hostility into full-blown hysteria. When Bloch and his daughter drove from suburban Chappaqua, N.Y., into Manhattan, they were followed by a posse of federal officers, news reporters, camera crews and, said Government sources, a carload of KGB agents...
...Alan Parker. By avocation he is a caricaturist, and by vocation too. He chooses gross faces, grand subjects, base motives, all for immediate impact. The redneck conspirators are drawn as goofy genetic trash: there's not a three-digit IQ in the lot, not a chin in a carload. These are not bad men -- they're baaaad guys. And the blacks are better than good; their faces reveal them as martyrs, sanctified by centuries of suffering. Caricature is a fine dramatic tradition, when you have two hours to tell a story and a million things to say and show...
...million budget (mainly raised from foundations), the Archive started as a storage space for Armstrong, dubbed the "Great Accumulator" by his former colleague and co-author Bob Woodward (The Brethren). Armstrong, 41, who worked for the Senate Watergate Committee before joining the Post, began collecting documents by the carload in 1982 for a book about U.S. foreign policy. When his Post computer showed signs of overload, Armstrong created a place where Government documents like his could be stored and shared: a kind of national-security Nexis...
...vehicle was under heavy machine-gun fire and was rocked by at least one grenade explosion, Pinochet's driver managed to slam the car into reverse, whip around in a U-turn, and speed out of the circle of fire and back to El Melocoton. All but one carload of bodyguards stayed behind to shoot it out with the guerrillas. When the battle was over, five security men were dead and eleven wounded. Despite a widespread manhunt by army units and the paramilitary carabineros, all the attackers, whose number was estimated at between twelve and 40, slipped away...
...become the targets of intimidation and violence. In the past month, the Edmund D. Edelman Health Center of the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center in Los Angeles has received three bomb warnings, and its director, Hugh Rice, has been threatened with death. Just over a week ago, a carload of people threw a vial of acid at a woman employee, burning her face, shoulder and arm. The victim said one of her attackers screamed, "Die, you AIDS faggots...