Word: tears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with their struggling lower middle class French Canadian husbands. Denise sublimates her frustration into gluttony and Monique pops pills and curses her travelling salesman husband for coming home only long enough to impregnate her. Serge's youngest sister, Nicole, sleeps with him. Meanwhile the old man and the aunts tear at each other as they sink pathetically into their graves. Everyone knows what Serge and Nicole are doing, but no one says anything up front. The atmosphere is stifling...
...soldiers performed such smashing kung-fu stunts as breaking bricks with their fists and foreheads. Pravda and Tass described alleged Nazi-like atrocities committed by Chinese in the war zone. According to Literary Gazette, "Chinese soldiers hang the wounded, cut open women's stomachs, drown children in swamps, tear babies apart...
...mercurial, as much the victim as the exploiter of her powers. She was superbly matched by Baritone Franz Mazura's richly shaded portrayal of the newspaper magnate Dr. Schön, Lulu's patron and eventual husband. The rest of the cast was excellent too: Tenor Robert Tear as a naive painter undone by Lulu, and Bass-Baritone Toni Blankenheim as the mysterious Schigolch, Lulu's father, a former lover or perhaps a symbol of death...
...plans to build a fence between Juarez and El Paso, which a spokesman for the construction firm said would have edges sharp enough to cut off the toes of any Mexican who tried to cross it, the Mexican government was willing "to fight to the last barb to tear the thing down," one American living in Mexico said. When the U.S. trade restrictions on Mexican goods oscillated unpredictably, Lopez Portillo voiced his outrage...
Inside the compound, some of the attackers were picking up telephones and randomly dialing numbers. When someone answered, they would shout: "Hey Yankee, we've come to do you in. Tell Carter he's finished." People started fires to disperse the tear gas, but whenever a fire started to get out of hand, there would be shouts of "Don't burn anything. Save it!" All the while, bullets filled the air, ricocheting off the ground and buildings. Then several gunmen stopped firing and yelled to the others: "Stop! Orders from Khomeini...