Word: bloodbath
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...elite dance troupe charged with entertaining military top brass. Opposite are a lawyer and some business types. It's my turn to say something. I've played this game many times before with Chinese friends, but I'm lost in the whirlwind of jargon. Keen to avoid a bloodbath in the first round, I make a feeble plea for cool heads to prevail...
...British Prime Minister [Harold Wilson] had come to Rhodesia to try, somehow, to prevent the white-supremacist colonial regime of Ian Smith from seizing independence ... The United Nations had urged sanctions to starve the settlers out ... And Wilson himself had talked grimly of the 'bloodbath' that might follow a unilateral declaration of independence ... In his talks with Smith last month in London, it had become painfully clear that neither side would make any meaningful compromise on the fundamental issue. The British would give Rhodesia its freedom only on condition that the nation's 4,000,000 blacks be guaranteed control...
Whether the movie turns out to be a bloodbath or a triumphal song, one thing's for sure: it will be cutting edge...
...symbolism, were at times over-the-top, especially the Bride’s humongous black dress.The lighting, designed by Nicholas J. Shearer ’09, was amazing. Several times throughout the show, the stage and the audience were drenched in a thick red light, foreshadowing the bloodbath of the final scenes. The use of magnified shadows to prefigure actors’ entrances onto the stage was also a nice touch.The major strength of the Agassiz production came from its close adherence to its original script, which is sheer entertainment on its own. However, many scenes in the first...
...their attention on the local Polish base in the city in an effort to push the Coalition out of the city. That's just what the militias did with the British in Basra, leaving the city up for grabs for an all-out fight for power, an intra-sect bloodbath that Sunni extremists would only love to hasten and exploit. With reporting by TIME's Iraqi staff in the South